From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LJxwF-0007Hc-1k for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:28:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 44B46E05F8; Mon, 5 Jan 2009 22:28:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-relay1.uniserve.ca (unknown [216.210.109.129]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1812CE05F8 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2009 22:28:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ip-249.83.126.206.dsl-cust.ca.inter.net ([206.126.83.249] helo=ca.inter.net) by smtp-relay1.uniserve.ca with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LJxwB-0007cZ-07 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:28:44 -0800 Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:28:41 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 17:28:41 -0500 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] weird cron mail problem Message-ID: <20090105222841.GA4578@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20090105164240.GA4573@ca.inter.net> <20090105170635.GA27047@math.princeton.edu> <20090105180445.GB4573@ca.inter.net> <20090105181825.GB8629@princeton.edu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090105181825.GB8629@princeton.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Scanner: OK. Scanned. X-Uniserve-Spam-Score: 0.0 0 (/) X-Uniserve-Spam-Report: Content analysis details: (0.0 points) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- X-Archives-Salt: 2156b9b2-807f-4ab4-8e55-949337b5189c X-Archives-Hash: 5154207a2ae1f8c9aafc30ac882d1dcb 090105 Willie Wong wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 01:04:45PM -0500, Penguin Lover Philip Webb squawked: > have you checked your outgoing mail logs > to see if cron attempts to send mail when fetchmail is called? Thanks for the suggestion: the last few lines of /var/log/syslog are : Jan 5 17:10:01 localhost cron[4753]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons ) Jan 5 17:10:01 localhost cron[4754]: (purslow) CMD (/usr/bin/fetchmail) Jan 5 17:10:11 localhost sSMTP[4765]: Sent mail for root@ca.inter.net (221 smtp-relay1.uniserve.ca closing connection) uid=1000 username=purslow outbytes=1049 Jan 5 17:15:01 localhost cron[4908]: (purslow) CMD (/usr/bin/fetchmail) Jan 5 17:15:09 localhost sSMTP[4909]: Sent mail for root@ca.inter.net (221 smtp-relay2.uniserve.ca closing connection) uid=1000 username=purslow outbytes=952 > Actually, what is your cron recipe anyway? /var/log/spool/cron/crontabs/ is : # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.XXXXwsshN7 installed on Sun Nov 4 23:46:22 2007) # (Cron version V5.0 -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.12 2004/01/23 18:56:42 vixie Exp $) */5 * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail I considered trying 'fetchmail -s', but I'm not sure how to add a flag in a cron file (perhaps by using a script). > Also, have you updated either cron or fetchmail recently? The problem originated 090104 c0520 , when I edited ~/.fetchmailrc to delete the reference to a logfile. However, attempts to restore the STATVS QVO ANTE have failed: I've restored the previous version of .fetchmailrc without success & I've remerged Fetchmail, rebooted & then run fetchmailconf , but the crazy mails continue to appear every 5 min in my inbox. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca