Since Update 3.3 many cron mails

JanB

Hi all,
I've updated my instance to the newly supported release today. Since the release, I'm experiencing a huge amount of mails in the spamd histstory, which wasn't be the case bofore. They will be fired every 5 mins.
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WalterH

The screenshot is unreadable. Post it again in a more readable form.

JanB

WalterH

JanB

The uploaded image has a propper resolution, don't know how to fix it.
Never the less, there seems to be at least three scripts involved. Intervall seems to be round about 5 Minutes.

20260124093506.C93EB6B9B60@mx25.<>.net 127.0.0.1 groarchive@mx25. <>.net groarchive@mx25. <>.net Cron <groarchive@mx25> /usr/lib/grommunio-archive/indexer.delta.sh no action -0.10 / 15 1.07 KiB 0.125 24.1.2026, 10:35:06

20260124093001.9A57A6B9B68@mx25. <>.net 127.0.0.1 groarchive@mx25. <>.net groarchive@mx25. <>.net Cron <groarchive@mx25> /usr/bin/indexer --config /etc/sphinx/sphinx.conf --quiet note1 --rotate no action -0.10 / 15 1000 B 0.127 24.1.2026, 10:30:01

20260124093001.6F0546B9B60@mx25. <>.net 127.0.0.1 groarchive@mx25. <>.net groarchive@mx25. <>.net Cron <groarchive@mx25> /usr/bin/indexer --config /etc/sphinx/sphinx.conf --quiet tag1 --rotate no action -0.10 / 15 1000 B 0.110 24.1.2026, 10:30:01

WalterH

JanB /usr/lib/grommunio-archive/indexer.delta.sh

This command could be found in a file in /etc/cron.d/. However, grommunio-archive does not currently install cron tables, which is why the archive only works partially. The question is, who installed the cron tables?

JanB

WalterH

According to the crontab and cron logs, those scripts wont't be called by cron.d.

Besten Jan

crpb

WalterH This command could be found in a file in /etc/cron.d/. However, grommunio-archive does not currently install cron tables, which is why the archive only works partially. The question is, who installed the cron tables?

it does.

root@grom-test-1:/var/spool/mail# rpm -q --filesbypkg grommunio-archive  |grep cron
grommunio-archive         /var/spool/cron
grommunio-archive         /var/spool/cron/tabs
grommunio-archive         /var/spool/cron/tabs/groarchive
root@grom-test-1:/var/spool/mail# cat /var/spool/cron/tabs/groarchive
5,35 * * * * /usr/lib/grommunio-archive/indexer.delta.sh
30   2 * * * /usr/lib/grommunio-archive/indexer.main.sh
40   3 * * * /usr/lib/grommunio-archive/purge.sh
*/15 * * * * /usr/bin/indexer --config /etc/sphinx/sphinx.conf --quiet tag1 --rotate
*/15 * * * * /usr/bin/indexer --config /etc/sphinx/sphinx.conf --quiet note1 --rotate
*/5  * * * * /usr/bin/find /usr/share/grommunio-archive/archive/tmp -type f -name i.\* -exec rm -f {} \;
*/5  * * * * /usr/bin/find /var/lib/grommunio-archive/error -type f | wc -l > /var/lib/grommunio-archive/stat/error

WalterH

May be crontab -l or any other cron method?

umgfoin

crontab -e -u groarchive ?

WalterH

My understanding is that the scripts run as root, so only crontab -e or better -l to list all entries.

umgfoin

WalterH My understanding is that the scripts run as root,[...]

Imho & If I interpret the rspamd-logs correctly, a cron-daemon on host mx25 is trying to dispatch status-mails originating from job /usr/lib/grommunio-archive/indexer.delta.sh impersonated as user groarchive, thus, I'd expect to find the relevant config under groarchive's cron-table.

Redirecting the script's stdout to /dev/null would silence success-messages, but still send reports on output to stderr.

e.g.:
5,35 * * * * /usr/lib/grommunio-archive/indexer.delta.sh > /dev/null

WalterH

On my system, the commands run as the root user. I obtained the cron entries from Piler, who is the original developer of Grommunio Archive.

# cat /etc/cron.d/grommunio-archive
# Warning this crontab file was created by ./repair-grommunio-archive.sh, do not edit, it will be overwritten.
# min hour d-o-m month d-o-w  User  command
3,35 * * * *  root /usr/lib/grommunio-archive/indexer.delta.sh
0    2 * * *  root /usr/lib/grommunio-archive/indexer.main.sh
*/5  * * * *  root /usr/bin/find /var/lib/grommunio-archive/tmp -type f -name i.\* -exec rm -f {} \;
*/5  * * * *  root /usr/bin/find /var/lib/grommunio-archive/error -type f|wc -l > /var/lib/grommunio-archive/stat/error
30   6 * * *  root /usr/bin/php /usr/lib/grommunio-archive/generate_stats.php --webui /usr/share/grommunio-archive/archive >/dev/null
# --- eof ---

JanB

I've added some "> /dev/null" to the corresponding crontab-file "/var/spool/cron/tabs/groarchive".

Desired silence achieved again. Thanks.