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Mac OSX with 2 users. I get this email every hour, I cannot find the location of cron.hourly and the Activity Program does not list this Cron daemon.
From: Cron Daemon <root@localhost.localdomai
Subject: Cron <root@localhost> run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
Date: November 16, 2010 10:23:02 AM EST
To: root@localhost.localdomain
/etc/cron.hourly/sendmail:
sendmail: illegal option -- q
sendmail: usage: sendmail [ -t ] [ -fsender ] [ -Fname ] [ -bp ] [ -bs ] [ arg ... ]
Any suggestions on how to stop this.
Thanks
From: Cron Daemon <root@localhost.localdomai
Subject: Cron <root@localhost> run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
Date: November 16, 2010 10:23:02 AM EST
To: root@localhost.localdomain
/etc/cron.hourly/sendmail:
sendmail: illegal option -- q
sendmail: usage: sendmail [ -t ] [ -fsender ] [ -Fname ] [ -bp ] [ -bs ] [ arg ... ]
Any suggestions on how to stop this.
Thanks
Adrian Cantrill
look at /etc/crontab it should list the locations of the daily, hourly cron files, check each of these for the command.
ASKER
I used terminal and checked user /etc and root(bash3.2#) /etc and there is not a directory crontab or cron.
Thanks for responding
Thanks for responding
as root do a crontab -l and check the output.
did you look for crontabs in /usr/lib/cron/tabs/?
What OS?
What OS?
ASKER
I am using OSX 10.6.5
No Crontab file or directory, however I did locate the cron directory in the /usr/lib directory. This is what is inside:
bash-3.2# ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Aug 17 17:59 at.deny
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 May 18 2009 cron.deny
drwxr-xr-x 2 daemon wheel 68 Feb 10 2010 jobs
drwxr-xr-x 2 daemon wheel 68 Feb 11 2010 spool
drwx------ 2 root wheel 68 May 18 2009 tabs
drwx------ 2 root wheel 68 May 18 2009 tmp
Nothing that matches the daemon that is running.
No Crontab file or directory, however I did locate the cron directory in the /usr/lib directory. This is what is inside:
bash-3.2# ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Aug 17 17:59 at.deny
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 May 18 2009 cron.deny
drwxr-xr-x 2 daemon wheel 68 Feb 10 2010 jobs
drwxr-xr-x 2 daemon wheel 68 Feb 11 2010 spool
drwx------ 2 root wheel 68 May 18 2009 tabs
drwx------ 2 root wheel 68 May 18 2009 tmp
Nothing that matches the daemon that is running.
What is in the tabs file?
Folder, I mean
ASKER
Nothing. I must tell you that I am really over my head here (not knowledgable) about this OS. The tabs directory is empty.
This message appears every hour - can I disable receiving it?
Thanks,
This message appears every hour - can I disable receiving it?
Thanks,
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Question did not involve issue with local Mac, but issue with internet host service.