On Friday 01 Jan 2010 16:41:12 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Friday, 2010-01-01 at 15:59 -0000, Bob Williams wrote:
On Friday 01 Jan 2010 14:17:31 Carlos E. R. wrote:
barrowhillfarm:~ # crontab -u root -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.XXXXZ5pVMa installed on Sun Nov 22 19:05:53 2009) # (Cron version V5.0 -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.12 2004/01/23 18:56:42 vixie Exp $) * * * * * echo test
This looks like the villain. But surely, it has to run to check whether there are any pending cron jobs? Interestingly, the above "crontab -u root -l" command doesn't list the rsnapshot jobs that are run as user root :~(
No, that job does nothing, but oputput "test" to the mail subsystem, ie, mailing one email per minute with the line "test" in it.
Yes, that's the culprit.
Being root, run "crontab -e", and remove the line.
Fantastic! That's done it! And I've learnt a lot along the way. Many thanks. Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.2, Kernel 2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop, KDE 4.3.3 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 4GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9200GS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org