[wplug-bsd] Periodic -- phantom email

[Bill Moran]

Brandon Kuczenski <brandon at 301south.net> wrote:

> About a month ago I added a new script to my /etc/periodic/security 
> directory.  The script looks through the security log for notations 
> regarding people updating their IMAP passwords, and it's nothing special. 
> It works fine.

Can you show us the script?

> The day after I installed it, I began to get these mysterious emails at 
> 4:42 AM (exactly when my periodic daily functions run).  The emails are 
> >From root and not to anybody, so the mail daemon rejects them saying "no 
> recipients specified".  There is no content to the emails, either, just 
> mail from root to........... ?
> 
> The only clue I have is that I get the email every day at 4:42 AM without 
> fail.  The periodic scripts take several minutes to run, and I don't get 
> those outputs until 4:45 or 4:46, but the phantom email always comes right 
> at 4:42 (or possibly 4:42:01)
> 
> Any ideas how I could troubleshoot this?  I already tried removing the 
> script that I added that day, but I still got the email last night/this 
> morning.
> 
> Thanks in Advance,
> Brandon

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Bill Moran
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