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I installed vesta panel on my ubuntu server a few months ago and then removed it for some reasons, today only I was setting up fail2ban and also setup sendmail on the server and now my Yahoo mail is full of emails from subject :

 Cron <admin@asinnetworks> sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-update-sys-queue backup

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sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified
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sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified
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sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified
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sudo: 3 incorrect password attempts

I do not have any folder name /usr/local/vesta/bin on my server I do not know how to stop my server from sending me these mails

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Find the user with this cronjob

Thats the output from a cron job. do:

sudo grep -R "/usr/local/vesta/bin/v-update-sys-queue backup" /etc/cron* /var/spool/cron/crontabs

that will show hopefully what cron job is causing the output you can then ever delete it or direct its output to /dev/null

Delete the cronjob

Okay now you know the user the cronjob is under you can remove it or silence it.

sudo crontab -u admin -e

then delete the line that contains /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-update-sys-queue backup this will stop the job happening this should not be a problem as you no longer use it.

Or Silence the cronjob

or you can silence the output by adding the redirect as below:

*/5 * * * * sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-update-sys-queue backup > /dev/null 2>&1
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  • I guess the mails stopped from coming let me wait for sometime and see. I will mar this answer as a solution then. As i typed this I got two emails again, plus grep -R "command" just waits on terminal and does nothing
    – Khan Shahrukh
    Feb 26, 2015 at 19:26
  • Sorry I dont understand the grep -R command should not just wait, it should return nothing or the files that match?
    – squareborg
    Feb 26, 2015 at 19:30
  • Try the adjusted grep command
    – squareborg
    Feb 26, 2015 at 19:36
  • got this in return s8.postimg.org/4wmb20vcl/output.png
    – Khan Shahrukh
    Feb 26, 2015 at 19:55
  • see adjusted answer.
    – squareborg
    Feb 26, 2015 at 20:01

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