topic Re: repeated message from corn in Operating System - HP-UX

repeated message from corn

Yaroki — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:33:11 GMT

Hello,

Each 7 days I receive a message that accumulates to the /var/mail/root folder.

I attached the screenshot.

1. What is the meaning of this message?

2. Can I delete all the last messages from /var/mail/root (~250 messages)?

3. Can I stop the process?

BR,

Yali

Re: repeated message from corn

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:23:57 GMT

1) There is not much to the message. It is apparently not producing any useful output. One would have to look at the script, or run the script interactively and see what it is doing.

2) Yes, you can delete all the mail messages if you like.

3) I am not familiar with that process. Do you have some sort of remote support from HP? The "cron" job can easily be commented out. What other side effect that will have I do not know.

Re: repeated message from cron (pruneIncidents.sh)

Dennis Handly — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:04:24 GMT

>1. What is the meaning of this message?

That pruneIncidents.sh is sloppy and doesn't suppress blank lines. ;-)

>2. Can I delete all the last messages from /var/mail/root (~250 messages)?

At least all of the ones with empty cron messages like the one you showed.

>3. Can I stop the process?

As Patrick said, if you can fix the pruneIncidents.sh script, there should be no messages.

Perhaps appending the cron output to a logfile and you can monitor that.