Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2016-01-02 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 02Jan2016 22:11, Sudhir Khanger wrote: On Saturday 02 Jan 2016 2:32:36 PM Ed Greshko wrote: Well, since your cronjob is a program which performs an email function and since those errors being reported are referencing files in your directory I would say the most likely cause is the interactio

Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2016-01-02 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Saturday 02 Jan 2016 2:32:36 PM Ed Greshko wrote: > Well, since your cronjob is a program which performs an email function and > since those errors being reported are referencing files in your directory I > would say the most likely cause is the interaction between your cronjob and > an MTA and

Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2016-01-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/02/16 12:32, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > On Friday 01 Jan 2016 10:25:27 PM Ed Greshko wrote: >> 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

Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2016-01-01 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Friday 01 Jan 2016 10:25:27 PM Ed Greshko wrote: > 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 a

Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2016-01-01 Thread Ed Greshko
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. > Installi

Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2016-01-01 Thread Sudhir Khanger
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

Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2015-12-31 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/31/15 17:52, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > Hi, > > I ran journalctl -b to see what is causing bumblebee to fail. I see the log > is huge. There are thousands of line and the file is as big as 5.1 mb. I see > a > sendmail line over and over. I don't think I use sendmail or what installed > it

Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2015-12-31 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/31/15 17:52, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > I ran journalctl -b to see what is causing bumblebee to fail. I see the log > is huge. There are thousands of line and the file is as big as 5.1 mb. I see > a > sendmail line over and over. I don't think I use sendmail or what installed > it. > > De

Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2015-12-31 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Thursday 31 Dec 2015 12:22:40 PM Zoltan Hoppar wrote: > Hi, > > Is that possible that that way trying to send something but can't do > it as it is sendmail not installed? > > Z I use rss2email to get rss2email in inbox. In rss2email I have chosen to use smtp and it shouldn't ping sendmail ye

Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2015-12-31 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/31/2015 03:22 AM, Zoltan Hoppar wrote: Is that possible that that way trying to send something but can't do it as it is sendmail not installed? whereis sendmail will give you the answer. I think that it's part of the base install. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To u

Re: sendmail bombarding logs

2015-12-31 Thread Zoltan Hoppar
Hi, Is that possible that that way trying to send something but can't do it as it is sendmail not installed? Z 2015-12-31 10:52 GMT+01:00 Sudhir Khanger : > Hi, > > I ran journalctl -b to see what is causing bumblebee to fail. I see the log > is huge. There are thousands of line and the file is

sendmail bombarding logs

2015-12-31 Thread Sudhir Khanger
Hi, I ran journalctl -b to see what is causing bumblebee to fail. I see the log is huge. There are thousands of line and the file is as big as 5.1 mb. I see a sendmail line over and over. I don't think I use sendmail or what installed it. Dec 31 15:16:06 fedora crond[1188]: /usr/sbin/sendmail