Receiving many emails from Cron <root@server> per day

Terry Heffernan

• December 01, 2017 04:26

Hi A few days ago I started receiving emails from Cron that contained the following line: /bin/sh: /usr/local/bandmin/bandmin: No such file or directory Nothing else in the message. Can anyone advise me what's generating these emails and how to stop them. Thanks

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  cPanelMichael

  • December 04, 2017 17:56

  Hello, Could you let us know what version of cPanel is installed on this system? Also, please post the output from the following command via SSH while logged in as root:
  crontab -l
  Thank you.

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  Terry Heffernan

  • December 04, 2017 19:31

  Hi - thanks for the reply. I have discovered what was causing the problem. It's from within WHM platform. From the WHM menu: Under 'basic webhost manager > Contact information', I entered my email address as "contact in case a problem arises with this server." When started to receive the emails, I realised I didn't need to see that stuff. So I removed my email address from WHM. However, the emails kept coming. At that point I didn't have a clue what was generating the emails and 2 days+ ago I raised a ticket with Bluehost, to which I've had no update. Anyway, I discovered that when an email address is entered into 'basic webhost manager > Contact information', it is also entered into 'Server contacts > Edit System Mail Preferences' under 'Forward mail for "cpanel" to:' and 'Forward mail for "root" to:', but was not removed when the entry under 'basic webhost manager > Contact information' was deleted. Not sure if this is a bug or not, but it's not cPanel related. Regards

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  cPanelMichael

  • December 05, 2017 16:47

  Anyway, I discovered that when an email address is entered into 'basic webhost manager > Contact information', it is also entered into 'Server contacts > Edit System Mail Preferences' under 'Forward mail for "cpanel" to:' and 'Forward mail for "root" to:', but was not removed when the entry under 'basic webhost manager > Contact information' was deleted.

  
  Hello, I could not reproduce this on a test server running cPanel version 68.0.19. Could you verify which version of cPanel is installed on this system? Thank you.

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