On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 08:59:17 +0200 "M. Fioretti" <mfioretti@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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? It sounds like a regular cron job wanted to send you a message, and failed, and it is configured to retry frequently. Your idea of installing an MDA is probably the way to resolve this, as the message will indicate where it comes from, and point to the cron job that initiated it. Then you can change the configuration of that job to maybe retry once an hour instead of every 3 seconds. Just some speculation. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
