Re: sendmail bombarding logs

[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.
>
> Dec 31 15:16:06 fedora crond[1188]: /usr/sbin/sendmail: line 64: 
> /home/sudhir/.esmtp_queue/DPfrmBuQ/mail: No such file or directory

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.