On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 01:19:39PM -0800, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> Well, progress. I decided to use anacron so that I would not be
> updating my clock at each boot. Once per week should be fine. And I
> see that anacron is run by default, so all that is needed is to put an
> entry in anacrontab:
>
> # added 11/30/2009 dlh
> # period(days) delay(min.) identifier job
> 7 0 NTPDATE-DEB /usr/sbin/ntpdate-debian
>
> I take this to mean that there was a problem (exit status: 1). Yet I
> can find nothing in the mail logs. man anacron says the mail will go
> to the user (usually root). Is there some mail log which I am not
> privy to, due to ubuntu handling of root?
Since it is your machine:
sudo vi /etc/aliases
add a line: root: YOUR_USERNAME
the colon after root is important
sudo newaliases
After that email sent to root will be delivered to you.
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Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon
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