2015-11-06 - Re: [GRASE-Hotspot] Problem with syslog getting big with cron.php file

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From: Timothy White <ti***8@gmail.com>
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Reply To: <CAPz6xh60+2qajVkWQ7Vd_MhOot9e4Rz1yCOLn8kcRymSpU9hqw@mail.gmail.com>
UTC Datetime: 2015-11-06 05:47:41 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2015 22:47:41 +1000

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Hi Thomas

Was it actually your syslog getting large, or your mail spool?

I believe the cronjob emails are supposed to go to root. Is the problem
that nullmailer isn't setup to forward root to the correct location?

Tim

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Tomas213 <to***3@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello TIm.
> Today i noticed that my sylog is over 300 GB!
> most of the file was like that :
>
>
> ********************************************************************************
> Nov  5 11:39:38 serenity nullmailer[1204]: Starting delivery: protocol:
> smtp host: mail file: 1439377205.11230
> Nov  5 11:39:38 serenity nullmailer[1204]: Starting delivery, 4886
> message(s) in queue.
> Nov  5 11:39:46 serenity coova-chilli[1147]: chilli.c: 5511: DHCP Released
> MAC=00-21-9B-1D-DF-75 IP=10.1.0.189
> Nov  5 11:39:48 serenity nullmailer[13548]: smtp: Failed: Connect failed
> Nov  5 11:39:48 serenity nullmailer[1204]: Sending failed:  Host not found
> Nov  5 11:39:48 serenity nullmailer[1204]: Starting delivery: protocol:
> smtp host: mail file: 1442851208.27117
> Nov  5 11:39:48 serenity nullmailer[1204]: Starting delivery, 4886
> message(s) in queue.
>
> ********************************************************************************
>
> one of the messages :
>
>
> ********************************************************************************
>
> Subject: Cron <nobody@serenity>  wget -q
> http://127.0.0.1/grase/radmin/cron.php -O -
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968
> X-Cron-Env:
> <PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin>
> X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/nonexistent>
> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=nobody>
> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:00:10 +0300
> Message-Id: <1442984410.002609.8433.nullmailer@serenity>
>
> Deleted 1775 in 0.81492710113525 seconds: PostAuth MAC Reject rows cleared
>
>
> ********************************************************************************
>
> any ideas?
>
>
> Thomas
>
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