Hey all,

Just a quick question. I'm looking to find out how I can stop the hourly internal messages to root from happening. I'm running a 3rd party mail server app on this system, and these hourly messages aren't really working right. I'm running a separate logwatch job to get log notices so I really don't need the hourly notices.

I haven't had any luck finding out what's causing them to run. I have nothing in my /etc/cron.hourly folder, and no jobs schedule of course. All other systems do this by default too though, so it doesn't seem to be anything I ever set up. I just need to find out how to turn if off. The messages are showing as being from 'root@localhost.localdomain', and run at 2 minutes past the hour. This is on a Fedora Core 3 system.

Thanks!

As root, do crontab -l and see if anything is listed.

Nope, nothing is listed in there. I've set up plenty of my own scheduled jobs before on other systems, and this is nothing I've scheduled. Like I'd said, this job seems to run on every RH/Fedora system by default, but I have to believe there's a way to shut it off.

Here's an exerpt from the cron log:

Sep 16 14:01:01 Systemname crond[11945]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
Sep 16 14:02:39 Systemname crond[11967]: (root) MAIL (mailed 523 bytes of output but got status 0x0041 )

There's nothing in the /etc/cron.hourly folder, so I don't know what it's running, but it keeps trying to mail something to root. As a result I keep getting logs filled with relay attempts from the mail server app.