/etc/webmin/security-updates/update.pl emails compare?

Submitted by eddieb on Fri, 11/21/2014 - 00:40

I’ve been getting these emails now (below). Never seen them before. What is going on?

thanks

From: Cron Daemon [mailto:webmaster@mattermedia.com] Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2014 4:00 PM To: root@kvm1.localdomain Subject: Cron <root@kvm1> /etc/webmin/security-updates/update.pl

comparing 2.0.4-11.el6_5 and 2.0.4-11.el6_5 comparing 2.3.9-1.el6 and 2.3.9-1.el6

Status: 
Closed (fixed)

Comments

Submitted by JamieCameron on Fri, 11/21/2014 - 15:44

Looks like a debugging message that was accidentally left live in update.pl

The fix (till the next Virtualmin release) is to SSH into your system as root, run crontab -e and at the end of the line that contains /etc/webmin/security-updates/update.pl add :

>/dev/null 2>&1

Submitted by Issues on Fri, 12/05/2014 - 15:46

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.