repettitive email messages from the server

[yoram]

Hi
Last night I started receiving, by mail, the following message from my server:
"rsyslog start/running, process 3937" the number at the end changes from message to message.
the message was sent by: root and destination is root (root to root)
subject: Cron <root@CAROLINE> /etc/webmin/bandwidth/rotate.pl (CAROLINE is the server name)

the message was sent hourly on the hour
could it be related to overloading my ethernet? I've been moving lots of GBs to the server last night

except for that everything looks OK


Yoram

[Ian]

Hi Yoram,

This is not something I've had happen to me and I've moved a few TBs backwards and forwards. Perhaps you've been "fiddling"?

So, the question is, do you want to stop the bandwidth monitoring or just stop the emails?

To stop the bandiwth monitoring:

Go into Webmin. Then Networking -> Bandwidth Monitoring and hit the Turn Off Monitoring button.

To stop the emails

Go into Webmin. Then System -> Scheduled Cron Jobs and click on the /etc/webmin/bandwidth/rotate.pl job and add the following string to the end of the Command: >/dev/null 2>&1

So the string should read: /etc/webmin/bandwidth/rotate.pl >/dev/null 2>&1
then click the save button.

Let us know how you get on

[yoram]

Hi
I'm not shure I know what is bandwidth monitoring doing?
I have turned it off by un-activating "/etc/webmin/bandwidth/rotate.pl" at the cron jobs
I didn't notice any degradation in the etehrnet performance, but emails stopped

Yoram

[Ian]

Hi Yoram,

I've never used one personally. I'd say it's more for a multi-user environment. Maybe someone who uses one can chip in and explain why you'd need such a tool?