postdrop: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory

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Hi,

I keep getting this feedback from executing a cron job, it runs everyday at this time. Can anyone tell me what this means?

Apr  6 00:05:01 anointedserv1 /USR/SBIN/CRON[4294]: (root) CMD (/var/cache/iplist/updateip)
Apr  6 00:05:16 anointedserv1 cron[1788]: postdrop: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory
Apr  6 00:10:01 anointedserv1 /USR/SBIN/CRON[4401]: (root) CMD (/usr/sbin/ipblock - p)
Apr  6 00:10:01 anointedserv1 cron[1788]: postdrop: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory

Thanks!..

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On 2012-04-11 18:36, VcDeveloper1 wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I keep getting this feedback from executing a cron job, it runs
> everyday at this time. Can anyone tell me what this means?
>
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> Apr 6 00:05:01 anointedserv1 /USR/SBIN/CRON[4294]: (root) CMD (/var/cache/iplist/updateip)
> Apr 6 00:05:16 anointedserv1 cron[1788]: postdrop: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory
> Apr 6 00:10:01 anointedserv1 /USR/SBIN/CRON[4401]: (root) CMD (/usr/sbin/ipblock - p)
> Apr 6 00:10:01 anointedserv1 cron[1788]: postdrop: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory
> --------------------

Is postfix running? And configured?

Do an “ls -l /var/spool/postfix/public”. It should contain this:


Telcontar:~ # l /var/spool/postfix/public
total 8
drwx--x---  2 postfix maildrop 4096 Apr 18 20:27 ./
drwxr-xr-x 16 root    root     4096 Dec 22 16:05 ../
srw-rw-rw-  1 postfix postfix     0 Apr 18 20:27 cleanup=
srw-rw-rw-  1 postfix postfix     0 Apr 18 20:27 flush=
prw--w--w-  1 postfix postfix     0 Apr 18 23:51 pickup|
prw--w--w-  1 postfix postfix     0 Apr 18 23:47 qmgr|
srw-rw-rw-  1 postfix postfix     0 Apr 18 20:27 showq=
Telcontar:~ #

Check “/etc/postfix/master.cf”, there should be this line:


pickup          fifo  n       -       n       60      1       pickup

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

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Hi, thanks for the reply!

No, I don’t have Postfix running at the moment. This is on my TODO List.

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On 2012-04-26 21:06, VcDeveloper1 wrote:
>
> Hi, thanks for the reply!
>
> No, I don’t have Postfix running at the moment. This is on my TODO
> List.

That’s your problem, then.

Cron uses local email to send you the output from the cron job. If email is
not working, you have a problem.

And that is weird, because postfix is installed and runs by default on any
openSUSE system, unless you took steps to remove it.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)