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Operating Systems HP-UX losing mail enroute Post 302561160 by edstevens on Monday 3rd of October 2011 10:42:26 AM
Old 10-03-2011
losing mail enroute

system is HP-UX B.11.23 U ia64

A standard feature of almost all of our cron jobs is to redirect output to a log file, then at the end of the script to embed the contents of that log file in the body of an email sent to the IT staff. Typical code to do this is
Code:
$MAILER -s "$PROC: $SUBJECT" $MAILTO < $LOG > /dev/null 2>&1

where $MAILER = /usr/bin/mailx

the mail is forwarded to an Exchange server where we then pick it up in our individual Outlook accounts. There are several dozen, possibly in excess of 100 of these every day. Last week we quit receiving the email from one single job. All others continue to come through. I checked for the log file output of the job (set to /tmp/$PROC.$$) and it is being created and shows the job ran as expected. But the mail appears to not be reaching our Exchange server. Or if it is, it is not making it to our individual accounts. On the source, the mail is sent to a distribution list defined in our aliases file.

So, how do I begin to follow this email through the system and find where it is getting dropped? (My primary job role is Oracle DBA, but I work closely with our unix SA and consider myself a power user or SA apprentice. I have full root access to the HP system. The exchange server is managed by a different dept and I have no direct access to it, will have to work with their admin when we get to that point.

Last edited by vbe; 10-03-2011 at 01:32 PM..
 

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PQSTAT(1)							      pqstat								 PQSTAT(1)

NAME
pqstat - List jobs in NetWare print queue SYNOPSIS
pqstat [ -h ] [ -S server ] [ -U user name ] [ -P password | -n ] [ -C ] [ -B ] queue name [ job count ] DESCRIPTION
pqstat lists specified number of jobs from the specified NetWare print queue available to you on some server. If you are already connected to some server, this one is used. If pqstat does not print to a tty, the decorative header line is not printed, so that you can count the jobs in print queue by doing pqstat -S server queue | wc -l pqstat looks up the file $HOME/.nwclient to find a file server, a user name and possibly a password. See nwclient(5) for more information. Please note that the access permissions of .nwclient MUST be 600, for security reasons. OPTIONS
queue name queue name is used to specify queue. You can not use wildcards in the name. job count job count is used to specify how much entries will be shown. Default is to show all entries. -S server server is the name of the server you want to use. -U user name If the user name your NetWare administrator gave to you differs from your unix user-id, you should use -U to tell the server about your NetWare user name. -P password You may want to give the password required by the server on the command line. You should be careful about using passwords in scripts. -n -n should be given to mount shares which do not require a password to log in. If neither -n nor -P are given, pqstat prompts for a password. -C By default, passwords are converted to uppercase before they are sent to the server, because most servers require this. You can turn off this conversion by -C. -B By default, pqstat lists the Netware name of the print job owner. -B causes it to list the banner name instead. SEE ALSO
nwclient(5), nprint(1), slist(1), ncpmount(8), ncpumount(8), pqlist(1), pqrm(1) CREDITS
pqstat was written by David Woodhouse (dave@imladris.demon.co.uk) pqstat 03/03/1998 PQSTAT(1)
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