LAMP stack keeps trying to forward the content of my websites to me via email.

Bill Carney - Thu, 2013/09/26 - 20:40

I woke up this morning with a stuck server; even after rebooting MySQL wouldn't start. Low and behold, my drive was filled! I checked /var/mail , and the file for root was over 11 GB. I deleted the file and things started working again - sort of.

Something is causing cron to try to email me the HTML code for all the landding pages on the sires on the server.

I opened up the root mail file, and there are a lot of references to

Subject: Cron <root@lamp> /var/www/pull_rss_from_misenategop.cron #Pull RSS from MISenateGOP.com (failed)

Well, that job - pull_rss_from_misenategop.cron - all it does is use a WordPress plugin to pull data from an RSS feed and insert it as posts to the websites. The contents look like:

/usr/bin/curl --silent http://www.site1.com/?pull-feeds=abc123abc123abc123

/usr/bin/curl --silent http://www.site2.com/?pull-feeds=abc123abc123abc123

The cron job appears to be working as the contents from the feeds are being pulled.

But then more errors are appearing:

Subject: Cron <root@lamp> [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/ -type f -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) -delete

PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20090626+lfs/php_curl.dll' - /usr/lib/php5/20090626+lfs/php_curl.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0

This cron job below appears to be causing that message:

[ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/ -type f -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) -delete

Can anyone tell me why the system is generating these emails, why its trying to send me the HTML for the default website pages, and how I can stop this from occuring?

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