sendmail bombarding logs

[Sudhir Khanger]

On Friday 01 Jan 2016 8:25:15 AM Ed Greshko wrote:
> 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.

Installing sendmail did clear up a lot of entries.

I am not sure what is running the cronjob.

[root at fedora sudhir]# crontab -l
no crontab for root
[root at fedora sudhir]# exit
exit
[sudhir at fedora ~]$ crontab -l
*/30 * * * * /home/sudhir/.local/bin/rss2email/bin/r2e run
[sudhir at fedora ~]$ ps aux | grep crond
root      1206  0.0  0.0 128464  3112 ?        Ss   03:10   0:00 
/usr/sbin/crond -n
sudhir   21110  0.0  0.0 117008  2260 pts/1    S+   14:55   0:00 grep --
color=auto crond

crond is being run by root user. crontab of root user is emtpy. Probably some 
system process is triggering cronjob.

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Regards,
Sudhir Khanger,
sudhirkhanger.com.