sendmail bombarding logs

[Ed Greshko]

On 01/01/16 17:27, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
> 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.
>
Don't forget crond is responsible for running crontab jobs for *all* users as well as jobs
in /etc/cron.d and the other /etc/cron.* directories.

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 ?

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