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Hi Folks,

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:

----------------------------------------------------------------------
From uucp Sat Mar 8 23:45:00 2008
From: UUCP administrator <uucp@w0.ctldirect.com>
X-Mailer: SCO OpenServer Mail Release 5.0
To: uucp@w0.ctldirect.com
Subject: uuclean ran; /usr/spool/uucp du
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 23:45:00 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <200803082345.aa10976@w0.ctldirect.com>
Status: RO

2 /usr/spool/uucp/.Admin
2 /usr/spool/uucp/.Corrupt
2 /usr/spool/uucp/.Log/uucico
2 /usr/spool/uucp/.Log/uucp
2 /usr/spool/uucp/.Log/uux
2 /usr/spool/uucp/.Log/uuxqt
10 /usr/spool/uucp/.Log
2 /usr/spool/uucp/.Old
2 /usr/spool/uucp/.Sequence
2 /usr/spool/uucp/.Status
2 /usr/spool/uucp/.Workspace
2 /usr/spool/uucp/.Xqtdir
26 /usr/spool/uucp
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Thanks
Marc Champagne

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<

Marc Champagne typed (on Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 08:10:35PM -0500):
|
| 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 ...

Cron, only cron, and nothing but cron, is running uuclean on your
machine, as it does on hundreds if not thousands of other sites.

I suspect that, as root, you are typing

crontab -l

and not seeing any tasks remotely matching uuclean at 23:45 or indeed at
any time at all. That's pretty normal.

But if you now typed

crontab -luuucp

what do you see?

--
JP

Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr@jpr.com> wrote in
news:20080311033209.GS17225@jpradley.jpr.com:

> Marc Champagne typed (on Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 08:10:35PM -0500):
>|
>| 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 ...
>
> Cron, only cron, and nothing but cron, is running uuclean on your
> machine, as it does on hundreds if not thousands of other sites.
>
> I suspect that, as root, you are typing
>
> crontab -l
>
> and not seeing any tasks remotely matching uuclean at 23:45 or indeed
> at any time at all. That's pretty normal.
>
> But if you now typed
>
> crontab -luuucp
>
> what do you see?
>

I see my head burried in sand

Never came to my mind to verify other "users" for crontab.

Thanks JP

Marc