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@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@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.
