[PLUG] Lost about this Cron job and where is it

[Tim]

> I am a little lost about this cron job (and feeling pretty stupid too).  I
> am running Ubuntu and
> up until a month ago, I started getting this cron job that kept doing some
> sendmail checks like 200 times a day and sending email to my mailbox.
> I checked under /var/spool/cron/crontabs and there is nothing there
> (directory is empty).  I checked crontab of root and my user account and it
> is emptied.
> If I shutdown cron daemon, the cron job stops.  But if I cannot find any
> crontab entry, I do not
> understand where this one is coming from.
> 
> Any clue much appreciated.....
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: root at vincent-desktop (Cron Daemon)
> To: root at vincent-desktop
> Subject: Cron <smmsp at vincent-desktop> test -x /etc/init.d/sendmail &&
> /usr/share/sendmail/sendmail cron-msp
> Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:00:01 -0700
> 
> /usr/share/sendmail/sendmail: 1226: /usr/sbin/sendmail-msp: not found
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Well a good start would be to uninstall sendmail.

;-)


But seriously, have you checked /etc/crontab and these directories?

cron.d
cron.daily
cron.hourly
cron.monthly
cron.weekly


HTH,
tim