Server busy with stuff that I uninstalled or maybe never was there

[mr-wolf]

TITLE:

Server busy with stuff that I uninstalled or maybe never was there​

PRODUCT, VERSION, OPERATING SYSTEM, ARCHITECTURE:

Please 17.5.3 / Ubuntu 16.04​

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:

I am using ASSP to protect the mail against spammers, so I have no need for spamassassin.

My server comes pre-installed with Plesk.
I'm not sure, but it's possible it came with the spam assassin module installed.
Anyhow... I de-installed this module if it was there when customising it to my needs.

I have a monitoring system that shows me the result of top every 2 minutes and to my dismay I noticed that the server is busy at night analyzing all the mail.

All this work is for nothing as the result is never getting used.

Can Plesk be more intelligible about its resources?

The same goes for Tomcat for which I have no license. I can see that one showing up from time to time although that one is more modest...

Maybe there are more processes like this (drweb?)

Both spamassassin and Tomcat have a symbolic link in /etc/cron.daily/​

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

Remove component spamassassin
Check /etc/cron.daily/ and see it's still there​

ACTUAL RESULT:

It keeps running each night​

EXPECTED RESULT:

Don't take any precious resources if I don't want to use it.

Maybe script can check if the component is enabled...?​

ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

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YOUR EXPECTATIONS FROM PLESK SERVICE TEAM:

Confirm bug​

 

[IgorG]

# rpm -qf /etc/cron.daily/60sa-update
psa-spamassassin-17.5.3-cos7.build1705170317.16.x86_64

as you can see this cron task is a part of psa-spamassassin package. Make sure that you use command like

# rpm -e spamassassin psa-spamassassin

for complete spamassassin uninstallation.

Both spamassassin and Tomcat have a symbolic link in /etc/cron.daily/

Sorry, but no any symlinks here by default:

# ls -la /etc/cron.daily/
total 56
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 6 05:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 102 root root 12288 Jun 6 12:20 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 211 Feb 19 2013 00webalizer
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 332 Jul 25 2016 0yum-daily.cron
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 284 Mar 17 15:19 50plesk-daily
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 447 Mar 17 15:23 60sa-update
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 152 Mar 14 13:44 awstats
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 57 Mar 17 15:21 dmarc-report
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 237 Mar 17 15:32 drweb-update
-rwx--x--x 1 root root 180 Jul 25 2016 logrotate
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 618 Jul 25 2016 man-db.cron
-rw-r----- 1 root root 192 Jul 25 2016 mlocate

 

[mr-wolf]

I have no psa-spamassassin installed, only spamassassin.
I removed it using "apt-get remove spamassassin"
Hopefully it doesn't break anything.

The "spamassassin" script in /etc/cron.daily/ couldn't have been the culprit. It has "# This task was disabled by psa-spamassassin package\nexit 0" in it.