Constant mails received at /var/mail/root

[lmora]

I use to receive this message every minute at /var/mail/root which honestly I don't know the meaning of it.

239994 Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:58:01 -0600 (CST)
239995
239998 From root@vici.vicidial.com Thu Dec 3 11:59:01 2009
239999 Return-Path: <root@vici.vicidial.com>
240000 X-Original-To: root
240001 Delivered-To: root@vici.vicidial.com
240002 Received: by vici.vicidial.com (Postfix, from userid 0)
240003 id 436FC339A1; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:59:01 -0600 (CST)
240004 From: root@vici.vicidial.com
240005 To: root@vici.vicidial.com
240006 Subject: Cron <root@vici> /usr/share/astguiclient/ADMIN_keepalive_ALL.pl
240007 X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
240008 X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
240009 X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
240010 X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
240011 X-Cron-Env: <USER=root>
240012 Message-Id: <20091203175901.436FC339A1@vici.vicidial.com>

is it just an informative message or not?

Thanks
Luis

[mflorell]

How did you install ViciDial?

What Linux Distro?

[lmora]

Actually I paid someone at ViciDial group for the installation.
It was done under the ticket 2009061010000079.

I did the deal with K Caraker.

We are using OpenSuse v.11.1

Rgds

[mcargile]

That is cron emailing you the results of running one of the scripts, mainly the ADMIN_keepalive_ALL.pl which is run every minutes. This can be disabled if you like. Here is a walk through on how to do so:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/disable-th ... b-command/

These emails are safe to ignore however.

[gardo]

Personally I like those mail alerts generated by crontab. Let's you know if the system scripts encountered errors or not. Very informative IMHO.