Errormail from cront test: test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /u

[elmar283]

Cron keeps mailing me about files too large to send. It comes from the command 'test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons' that vixie-cron runs regularly.
The mail I get:

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postdrop: warning: uid=109: File too large
sendmail: fatal: logcheck(109): message file too big
Error closing sendmail: non-zero exit (75) at /usr/bin/mime-construct line 559

I don't know what it is trying to send trough sendmail. So does someone know what the reason for the message is?
I don't know what config files I should add. So please ask for that. Thanks!

[Quincy]

Seems that logcheck tries to email something like /var/log/messages (which may grow quite big if you don't have logrotate installed).

So I would suggest to:

• Check file sizes in /var/log
• Check the configuration (if any) of logcheck
• Perhaps install logrotate to keep file sizes small enough to get sent by email