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Title: weird cron log sent to eamil /etc/starmail #****************
Post by: KaiNeR on June 22, 2005, 09:24:43 AM

i keep recieving a cron job in my mails which says
/etc/startmail #****************#**********************.************  

and that is all it says, does anyone have any idea how to stop this as i'm recieving this mail every few mins, any idea's anyone ?????

i've now got over 100 of these emails since yesterday

thanks
Dave

Title: weird cron log sent to eamil /etc/starmail #****************
Post by: ki11er on June 22, 2005, 11:01:03 AM

Hi Dave

Try rebooting your server. I sometimes get those message after a non-clean server startup after a reboot.

Rebooting the server again seems to clear the problem.

Title: weird cron log sent to eamil /etc/starmail #****************
Post by: KaiNeR on June 22, 2005, 11:25:08 AM

Quote from: "ki11er"

Hi Dave

Try rebooting your server. I sometimes get those message after a non-clean server startup after a reboot.

Rebooting the server again seems to clear the problem.

Rebooting it now, i hope this fixes it, coz my mailbox is getting spammed to F***

Title: weird cron log sent to eamil /etc/starmail #****************
Post by: KaiNeR on June 22, 2005, 01:42:22 PM

Quote from: "ki11er"

Hi Dave

Try rebooting your server. I sometimes get those message after a non-clean server startup after a reboot.

Rebooting the server again seems to clear the problem.

it still appear after the reboot, i have pasted in the full email header of the cronjob

Date:  22 Jun 2005 11:38:17 -0000 [12:38:17 BST]
Delivered-To:  kainer@p31000.kainer.co.uk
alias-localdelivery-kainer@kainer.co.uk
root@p31000.kainer.co.uk
alias-localdelivery-root@kainer.co.uk
 
From:  Cron Daemon <root@kainer.co.uk>  
Message-ID:  <20050622113817.3594.qmail@kainer.co.uk>
Received:  (qmail 3637 invoked by alias); 22 Jun 2005 11:38:24 -0000
(qmail 3634 invoked by uid 101); 22 Jun 2005 11:38:24 -0000
(qmail 3632 invoked by alias); 22 Jun 2005 11:38:24 -0000
(qmail 3629 invoked by uid 0); 22 Jun 2005 11:38:24 -0000
 
Return-Path:  <anonymous@kainer.co.uk>
Subject:  Cron <root@p31000> /etc/startmail
To:  root@kainer.co.uk
X-Cron-Env:  <SHELL=/bin/bash>
<PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin>
<MAILTO=root>
<HOME=/root>
<LOGNAME=root>
 
Headers:  Show Limited Headers  
#***********************************.*****************.**************************************.*****************.****************.******************.**********************.***************.*******.*****************.***********.***************.*******#**************************##**************************  


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Hope someone has a clue coz i dont  :-?  :hammer:  :cry: