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 until now it failed. See my other response about "alternatives"
What is the content of /home/sudhir/.local/bin/rss2email/bin/r2e?
r2e stands for rss2email[1]. It's a little Python program that sends rss feed to your email. Fedora repos has an older (sort of) deprecated version of it. It will not be upgraded to its latest version in Fedora [2]. So I run the latest version in a Python virtual environment. It can use either smtp or sendmail. I use smtp and it shouldn't at all use sendmail.
I will get back once I have read content of several of those cron.* directories.
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 not anything having to do with files in /etc.
You said that installing sendmail "did clear up a lot of entries". So, are you still getting errors?
As I said, the rss2email package may work best with "sendmail" as opposed to another mta such as postfix.
Is this what you see now with the alternatives command?
[root@meimei etc]# alternatives --list | grep mta mta manual /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail
Would have been nice to know what it was before you installed it.