On 01/01/16 17:27, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > On Friday 01 Jan 2016 8:25:15 AM Ed Greshko wrote: >> It isn't "sendmail" which is placing those log entries. It is "crond" and >> the PID of crond is 1188. It would appear that a cron job is calling >> sendmail and producing those messages. > Installing sendmail did clear up a lot of entries. > > I am not sure what is running the cronjob. > > [root@fedora sudhir]# crontab -l > no crontab for root > [root@fedora sudhir]# exit > exit > [sudhir@fedora ~]$ crontab -l > */30 * * * * /home/sudhir/.local/bin/rss2email/bin/r2e run > [sudhir@fedora ~]$ ps aux | grep crond > root 1206 0.0 0.0 128464 3112 ? Ss 03:10 0:00 > /usr/sbin/crond -n > sudhir 21110 0.0 0.0 117008 2260 pts/1 S+ 14:55 0:00 grep -- > color=auto crond > > crond is being run by root user. crontab of root user is emtpy. Probably some > system process is triggering cronjob. > Don't forget crond is responsible for running crontab jobs for *all* users as well as jobs in /etc/cron.d and the other /etc/cron.* directories. Well, you have a cron job called r2e. What does that contain? It very well may have been calling sendmail but it is probable it required "real" sendmail and since you didn't have it installed until now it failed. See my other response about "alternatives" What is the content of /home/sudhir/.local/bin/rss2email/bin/r2e ? -- In reality, some people should stick to running Windows and others should stay away from computers altogether. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
