[Linux-disciples] cron

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Strange. Does dlocate /etc/cron.d/sendmail (or just dlocate sendmail) give
you anything?

What does /etc/cron.d/sendmail do?

Brian Cooke wrote:
> I have this file on my Debian system /etc/cron.d/sendmail.  It is a cron
> job and to make a long story short is a bit of a nuisance for me and I
> don't need it anyway.  So I delete it.  The next time I restart my
> computer, the file is there again.  How can I find out what process is
> adding this cron job every time?
> "apt-get remove sendmail" produced these results:
> 
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Package sendmail is not installed, so not removed
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 456 not upgraded.
> 
> Also, "grep sendmail /etc/init.d/*" produced no relevant results...what
> gives?
> 
> Thanks,
> Brian


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