On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 08:55, Paul Howarth wrote: > 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@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. That's what it was. Normally I edit cron jobs manually, but with this particular install I installed KDE as well as GNOME and it looks like KDE installed a Task Scheduler program in the System Tools section. In my laziness I setup setiathome that way and forgot to dump the output to /dev/null. It didn't occur to me until you mentioned the cron job and I looked at it via crontab -e instead of through the task scheduler. That'll teach me to get lazy. Thanks for all the help. -------------------------------------- Mark Haney Network Administrator InterAct Public Safety Systems mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) Kernel: 2.6.8-1.521 GNU/Linux 09:08:52 up 1:29, 3 users, load average: 0.56, 2.19, 2.14
