topic Re: Getting email notification from cron daemon in Alerting

Getting email notification from cron daemon

rakesh44 — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 03:51:44 GMT

Hi Team,

Am getting back to back email from cron daemon, would like to know reason of email notification and also these notification are important , if not then can we stop such email notification.

I have attached sample screenshot of email notification.Thanks

Re: Getting email notification from cron daemon

richgalloway — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 13:13:31 GMT

These are not Splunk messages. Consider asking about them on Stack Overflow or a similar forum.
Only you and your team can determine if the messages are important - what's unimportant to some may be critical to others.
If you decide to ignore the messages we can help you with that.

Re: Getting email notification from cron daemon

Kawtar — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 18:30:13 GMT

Hello @rakesh44
Did you see in your application, in tab ALERTS if there is activated alert and check the actions , it can be email action somewhere?

Re: Getting email notification from cron daemon

lakshmisplunk — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 16:03:39 GMT

Hello @rakesh44
though cron running as root, the script used for running log rotation script might be running as other user(non root). /var/log usually owned by root.
I have my own VM running locally, have two users root, lkoppolu. With lkoppolu I cant even access /var/log. change permissions for the user. It will work