On 04/20/2017 11:59 PM, M. Fioretti wrote: > Greetings, > > a few minutes ago, I realized that, on a Fedora 25 box I have... > > - my /var/log/messages was almost 15 MILLIONS lines long. > - 99% of those lines (~20/second) are like this: > > crond: No configuration file found at /home/marco/.esmtprc or > /etc/esmtprc > > but the only line in my own crontab is a shell script that runs every > minute. When I run that script manually, from the command line, it yelds > no error or warning. From what I can see, this flood of crond warnings > started about a week ago, but I've used > that computer almost nothing in the last two weeks. > > I should install a local MDA on this box, I guess, but before that I > should really figure out what is making crond try 20 times a second to > send an email, and make it > stop. Any ideas? That's odd as cron only checks its tables once a minute. It's almost as if there's a script in a loop with a "sleep 20" or something akin to it inside the loop or a program doing the same. In those cases I'd expect the error message to contain the program's name--not "crond". Digging around, the /etc/esmtprc file is provided by the esmtp-local-delivery RPM while the functionality is provided by the esmtp RPM (a relay-only MTA). I have neither of those RPMs installed on my machines as I don't need a relay-only MTA (or an MTA of any kind) so I don't see this. If you don't need an MTA on your machine, I'd uninstall esmtp. If you do, I'd install esmtp-local-delivery to provide the /etc/esmtprc file (or create one yourself) to stop the messages. It's interesting that they split this into two RPMs. One would think a single esmtp RPM should provide all the stuff needed--or at least make esmtp dependent on esmtp-local-delivery so this condition can't happen. Having never used this, I don't know...perhaps there is a good reason why its done this way. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Batteries not included. Offer not valid in some states. - - Your mileage may vary. Void where prohibited. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
