Re: empty emails every morning from debian box

["Shri Shrikumar" <shri@urbyte.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrea Vettorello" <dnc@thctribe.net>
To: "debian-user mailing list" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: empty emails every morning from debian box


> On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 13:17, shri wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > here's a weird occurance. A blank email gets sent to me every morning
around
> > half past six. I have attached a copy - any ideas ?
> >
>
> [...]
>
> Do you have snort installed?

Actually yes.... and I think the whole empty emails started with that. I
however, cannot find any references to snort in syslog or messages (which
has just has a bunch of -- MARK -- messages in it)

Karl, I checked your suggestion and there is one entry in the syslog at
06:25:01 (2secs before the email) which runs anacron

<log>
Feb  7 06:25:01 ganesh /USR/SBIN/CRON[10426]: (root) CMD (test -e
/usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily)
</log>

this same line is there each day. But,

dpkg -l anacron gives me

pn  anacron                       <none>                        (no
description available)

and there is no anacron in /usr/sbin

Any ideas ?

TIA,

Regards,



Shri
PS - Does CRON not always put some headers into the email which is *not*
present in these ones.