dead letter recieved from cron

2010-09-29 Thread Tapas Mishra
I was taking backup of my server when I noticed a file named dead.letter what is that it is in root folder and its contents I have not created. Here are the contents To: root Subject: CRON-APT completed on server [/etc/cron-apt/config] CRON-APT RUN [/etc/cron-apt/config]: Thu Sep 23 04:00:01

Re: dead letter recieved from cron

2010-09-29 Thread Ahmed Kamal
These seem to be the output of a cron job. It seems like the server is configured to auto-update itself. Any output cron generates gets sent by email. dead.letter is when the mta (mail server) cannot deliver that email On 09/29/2010 01:00 PM, Tapas Mishra wrote: I was taking backup of my

Re: dead letter recieved from cron

2010-09-29 Thread Tapas Mishra
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Ahmed Kamal ahmed.ka...@canonical.com wrote:  These seem to be the output of a cron job. It seems like the server is configured to auto-update itself. Any output cron generates gets sent by email. dead.letter is when the mta (mail server) cannot deliver that