Marc Champagne wrote:

> I have searched hi and low, many times over the last upteen years.
>
> I still am stumped at what runs uuclean, it's not in cron (unless it's a
> spin-off from some entry in there, which I doubt, as I don't have a 23:45
> entry)
>
> I would simply like to turn it OFF, anyone have an idea?
>
> It always runs at 23:45 and generates a mail message as follows:

Gee:

# man uuclean
...
This program is typically started by the shell uudemon.clean, which
should be started by cron(C).
...
# man uudemon.clean
...
uudemon.clean
+++++++++++++

The uudemon.clean shell script, as delivered, takes log files for
individual machines from the /usr/spool/.Log directory, merges them,
and places them in the /usr/spool/.Old directory with other old
log information. If log files get large, the ulimit may need to be
increased. It also removes work files (C.) 7 days old or older,
data files (D.) 7 days old or older, and execute files (X.) 2 days
old or older from the spool files. uudemon.clean mails a summary of
the status information gathered during the current day to the UUCP
administrative login (uucp).

The default crontab entry for uudemon.clean is:

45 23 * * * ulimit 5000; /bin/su uucp -c \
"/usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.clean" > /dev/null
...
# cd /usr/spool/cron/crontabs
# grep clean u*
uucp:45 23 * * * ulimit 5000; /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.clean > /dev/null

Does any part of this disagree with your system?

>Bela<