nullmailer filling up syslog
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 3:09 pm
I am seeing syslog, mail.log and mail.err files being continuously written by nullmailer. It appears nullmailer is trying to connect to
smtp.xxxxx.yyy, where xxxxx.yyy is my hda's internal domain. Upon further research, I found an old post on ubuntu forum that suggested that there might be some messages stuck in /var/spool/nullmailer/queue. Sure enough I found messages like
Questions:
1) Is greyhole exiting with error code 1 normal?
2) Why is nullmailer trying to send an email using a non-existent smtp server?
3) How do I stop my /var/log/ directory filling up?
My setup is ubuntu 12.04 and I don't use greyhole.
Thanks
smtp.xxxxx.yyy, where xxxxx.yyy is my hda's internal domain. Upon further research, I found an old post on ubuntu forum that suggested that there might be some messages stuck in /var/spool/nullmailer/queue. Sure enough I found messages like
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Received: (nullmailer pid 4840 invoked by uid 0);
Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:27:53 -0000
From: root@hda.xxxxx.yyy (Cron Daemon)
To: root@hda.xxxxx.yyy
Subject: Cron <root@hda> test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 06:27:53 -0400
Message-Id: <1363602473.648347.4839.nullmailer@hda.xxxxx.yyy>
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/greyhole exited with return code 1
1) Is greyhole exiting with error code 1 normal?
2) Why is nullmailer trying to send an email using a non-existent smtp server?
3) How do I stop my /var/log/ directory filling up?
My setup is ubuntu 12.04 and I don't use greyhole.
Thanks