Re: update on: crond stopped, still fills /var/log/messages with millions of messages

2017-04-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 04/24/2017 03:22 AM, M. Fioretti wrote: I DO remember that I created an empty esmtprc, for testing, and then when restarted crond would complain that: "Local delivery not possible without a MDA" Right. If you wanted local delivery, you'd probably install the "esmtp-local-delivery" rpm.

update on: crond stopped, still fills /var/log/messages with millions of messages

2017-04-24 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2017-04-21 08:59, 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/e

Re: crond stopped, still fills /var/log/messages with millions of messages

2017-04-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 04/21/2017 10:03 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: 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. I read 20/second as 20 times per second. It's interesting th

Re: crond stopped, still fills /var/log/messages with millions of messages

2017-04-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 04/21/2017 03:15 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: 2: What uses estmp? esmtp will provide /usr/sbin/sendmail if it's the only MTA installed, in which case cronie will use it to deliver job output. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: crond stopped, still fills /var/log/messages with millions of messages

2017-04-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 04/20/2017 11:59 PM, M. Fioretti wrote: 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. At thi

Re: crond stopped, still fills /var/log/messages with millions of messages

2017-04-21 Thread Rick Stevens
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/.e

Re: crond stopped, still fills /var/log/messages with millions of messages

2017-04-21 Thread stan
On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 08:59:17 +0200 "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 a

Re: crond stopped, still fills /var/log/messages with millions of messages

2017-04-21 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 21Apr2017 08:59, M. Fioretti wrote: 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 th

crond stopped, still fills /var/log/messages with millions of messages

2017-04-21 Thread M. Fioretti
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 cron