Server never stops sending mail

[SeanLerner]

Hi Folks.

I had a misconfigured cronjob, which has been fixed for a while now, but my server refuses to stop letting me know about it. I see a constant stream of the following in my syslog:

May 18 13:00:57 smallcity sm-msp-queue[10486]: o4DMK2IU020947: to=postmaster, delay=4+18:14:47, xdelay=00:00:02, mailer=relay, pri=13713205, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (o4IGmMIr010600 Message accepted for delivery)
May 18 13:00:57 smallcity sm-mta[16701]: o4IGwA0q006507:to=<postmaster   at    smallcity   dot  ca>, delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:00,mailer=local, pri=33780, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
May 18 13:00:57 smallcity sm-msp-queue[6495]: o4DMK2II020947: to=postmaster, delay=4+18:14:54, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=relay, pri=13713205, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (o4IGwA0s006507 Message accepted for delivery)

I've tried several things:
* removing files in the sendmail queue (/var/spool/mqueue)
* stopping sendmail (/etc/init.d/sendmail stop) -- this doesn't seem to stop sendmail

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Sean

[Roxoff]

Are you sure that this is your cron job misbehaving? Have you read the emails, they could be notifications that things have gone to plan. The configured user will get output if a cron job produces any, you may find that this is just normal output being emailed.

[SeanLerner]

Are you sure that this is your cron job misbehaving? Have you read the emails, they could be notifications that things have gone to plan. The configured user will get output if a cron job produces any, you may find that this is just normal output being emailed.

Yes, the emails were related to a misconfigured cronjob, and they were all dated before I had removed the offending cronjob. It's actually stopped processing now, so it must have caught up.