No periodic daily?

[Fred Condo]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff at gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm having a strange issue with one of my boxes. It's the router for our DS3:
>
> router#uname -a
> FreeBSD router.mycompany.com 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Mon May
> 19 01:16:12 PDT 2008
> root at router.mycompany.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>
> The machine has stopped sending periodic daily and security reports,
> though I'm getting weekly and monthly reports. I see nothing in the
> syslogs to indicate any problems.
>
> If I issue, as root, the command 'periodic daily', it just hangs until
> I press ^C to break out of it, then it comes back with
>
>     router# periodic daily
>     ^C
>     (Interrupt -- one more to kill letter)
>
> and sends an email, with the following contents:
>
>     Removing stale files from /var/preserve:
>
>     Cleaning out old system announcements:
>
>     Removing stale files from /var/rwho:
>
> But nothing else - certainly much less than I get from my other boxes.
>
> Running 'periodic security' also hangs, but when I interrupt with ^C,
> I get no output at all, either at the prompt or in email.
>
>
> I plan on rebooting it this evening - is there anything I can do in
> the meantime to diagnose the issue?
>
> Kurt

At a minimum, we'd want to see the contents of /etc/periodic.conf

(as an aside) Any reason you're running an unpatched 7.0 on your
router? 7.0 is up to around patch 10.