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[Paul Howarth]

Mark Haney wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 08:44, Paul Howarth wrote:
>>The file is owned by you so it's one of your processes that's generating it. 
>>Do you have any cron jobs set up that might generate large volumes of output?
>>
>>Paul.
> 
> Damn.  I wondered what was going on.  The only cron job I run on this
> machine is setiathome.  I ran it on the old install on this machine and
> didn't have any problems.  Here's the output of ps:
> 
> [markh at marius markh]$ ps uaxww | grep mail
> root      2382  0.0  0.5  7656 2796 ?        S    07:41   0:00 sendmail:
> accepting connections
> smmsp     2391  0.0  0.4  7708 2372 ?        S    07:41   0:00 sendmail:
> Queue runner at 01:00:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue
> markh     3778  0.0  0.1  5056  588 pts/0    R    08:48   0:00 grep mail

OK, so there's nothing appearing to be trying to send mail at the moment.

Try running the cron job command straight from the command line and see if it 
produces any output. Anything you see sent to the terminal would normally get 
mailed to you by cron.

If you don't want the output, discard it by adding

 >/dev/null 2>&1

to the end of the cron job's command line.

Paul.