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adambaack_13393
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Jun 16, 2016

Just upgraded to 12.1 and getting many 'cron' emails?

I just recently upgraded from 11.3 to 12.1 and am for some reason now getting my email appliance spammed with cron job emails. Any idea how to stop this? Since yesterday I have over 2,000 emails qu...
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Martin_Robbins
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Nov 28, 2016

New issue with 12.1.1-HF2, mail err sSMTP messages and cron.hourly on standby unit:

Subject: Cron  run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
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/etc/cron.hourly/avr_run_scheduled_reports:

Reports scheduling should not run on a machine with a failover state of
inactive or standby at /usr/share/avr/bin/run_scheduled_reports.pl line 23.

I haven't opened a case but quick fix add a " 2>&1" on to the end of the script:

cat /etc/cron.hourly/avr_run_scheduled_reports
!/bin/sh
/usr/share/avr/bin/run_scheduled_reports.pl > /dev/null 2>&1