email Cron Daemon - No such file or directory

[dorotheaK]

Hallo,

I hope someone can help me here because I am very confused and cannot find a solution.
I am using Parallels Plesk Panel 11.0.9 and since yesterday I keep recieving emails from Cron Daemon, more or less every 10 minutes.

I recieve the following email.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Cron Daemon <[email protected]>
Date: 2013/11/25
Subject: Cron <root@cascaraamarga> /.../... /.../.... /usr/sbin/httpd
To: [email protected]

/bin/sh: /.../...: No such file or directory


I cannot find these directories in my ftp, there is no such folders bin/sh/.
What does it mean and what do you suggest to do for stop recieving the emails?

Thank you in advance!

 

[HMoellendorf87]

Hi dorotheaK,

do you have SSH access to that VPS? If yes, try the following:

1. connect to SSH
2. login
3. execute this command: crontab -e

If you get a list of entries, doublecheck them. If all is ok, you could set MAILTO="" which prevents sending the mails to you.

Kind regards
Henning

 

[dorotheaK]

Hallo and thank you for your answer!
I am really new using this and I dont know where I have to put the command crontab -e
I have ssh and I log in using root user via my ip urlort (is that right?),
then I enter the parallels Plesk Panel 11.0.9, but I cannot find where to run this command,
Could you specify please?
thank you!

Hi dorotheaK,

do you have SSH access to that VPS? If yes, try the following:

1. connect to SSH
2. login
3. execute this command: crontab -e

If you get a list of entries, doublecheck them. If all is ok, you could set MAILTO="" which prevents sending the mails to you.

Kind regards
Henning

 

[dorotheaK]

sorry urlort (I didnt ment to show tongue), I mean the IP url : port..

 

[HMoellendorf87]

Hi DorotheaK,

Execute this command directly After logged in via SSH, then you should see many lines...
One of them is MAILTO=

 

[dorotheaK]

Hi DorotheaK,

Execute this command directly After logged in via SSH, then you should see many lines...
One of them is MAILTO=

Do you mean in the terminal of my computer? Maybe I sound silly,
sorry for asking so much details, but in the SSH login invoronment I don know how to execute a command.

 

[HMoellendorf87]

Yes, in the SSH Environment. Simply Type it and press enter!

 

[dorotheaK]

Thank you very much for your patience!
well I do the following,
1. in the browser I connected using the ssh datos (then Parallels Plesk Panel apears),
2. then I opened the terminal in my computer and wrote crontab -e
and got this:

Mac-doritaownloads tea$ crontab -e
crontab: no crontab for tea - using an empty one


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"/tmp/crontab.mola0JbB7j" 0L, 0C


I also tried to connect via ssh like saying here:
http://support.hostgator.com/articles/hosting-guide/lets-get-started/how-do-i-get-and-use-ssh-access
Mac
To open the terminal in Mac go to Applications → Utilities → Terminal
Then type in the following command:
ssh -p 2222 [email protected]

Replace cpanelusr with your username and ip.add.re.ss with your IP address.

and got this:

Mac-doritaownloads tea$ ssh -p 2222 [email protected]
ssh: connect to host 5.9.202.22 port 2222: Connection refused

I dont know what am I doing wrong?

 

[HMoellendorf87]

You aren't connected to your Server ;-)
You just ran the command on your Mac

Please do it After connecting to your Server!

Is it a Root Server?

Check your Port:

(Port 2222 would be used for Shared and Reseller accounts, 22 is the default for Dedicated & VPS. Dedicated or VPS have the option of logging in with the root WHM username and password.)

 

[dorotheaK]

I didnt notice that I had to use port 22. I was using 2222. Now seams to connect?¿
I have the following in my teminal:
Does it seam to you OK?

Last login: Tue Nov 26 14:01:15 on ttys000
Mac-doritaownloads tea$ ssh -p 22 [email protected]
The authenticity of host '5.9.202.22 (5.9.202.22)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is bb:6e:3e:7c:7e:5f:4b:fe:9b:78:d7:38:c7:ff:8a:02.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? y
Please type 'yes' or 'no': yes
Warning: Permanently added '5.9.202.22' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
[email protected]'s password:
Permission denied, please try again.
[email protected]'s password:
Last login: Sun Nov 24 19:18:45 2013 from 82.146.61.120
[root@cascaraamarga ~]# crontab -e

*/10 * * * * /.../... /.../.... /usr/sbin/http
MAILTO="" (this one line I added it myself)
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-- INSERT --

 

[HMoellendorf87]

Hi DorotheaK,

please put the line above the */10 line and restart cron (service crond restart).
Then the messages shouldn't be delivered anymore.

Please try and give a feedback

 

[davidfrost]

Hi DorotheaK. Were you able to fix this so far? I think the cron is point to this, "/bin/sh: /.../...: No such file or directory" but it doesn't exists. Try to check this via ssh.