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 [email protected] (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 [email protected] (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/<userid> 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
