webmin crond messages

I just started getting 30 of these messages an hour:

Subject: Cron <root@ezms1> /etc/webmin/virtual-server/collectinfo.pl

Already Running

Please make it stop! I've tried restarting crond and webmin. What else should I try?

Status: 
Closed (fixed)

Comments

I'll help you stop those messages -- there may be a deeper cause which Jamie or Joe may need to chime in on.

If you go into System Settings -> Module Config -> Status Collection, try changing "Interval between status collection job runs" to something less frequent.

It's up to you as to how frequent it should be -- this just updates the server stats that you see in Virtualmin. Perhaps changing it to 60 minutes would be a start.

Will try that... But this just started out of the blue. No updates, no other changes. Won't this just send the message every hour rather than every 5 minutes? I still need to know what's fundamentally wrong!

Do you know that your html from this new site is unreadable in email? Here's a cut/paste from what I just received.

Greetings tbirnseth, Comment by andreychek: #1 I'll help you stop those messages -- there may be a deeper cause which Jamie or Joe may need to chime in on. If you go into System Settings -> Module Config -> Status Collection, try changing "Interval between status collection job runs" to something less frequent. It's up to you as to how frequent it should be -- this just updates the server stats that you see in Virtualmin. Perhaps changing it to 60 minutes would be a start. Read more https://virtualmin.com/node/9944#comment-42882 -- This is an automatic message from Virtualmin To manage your subscriptions, browse to https://virtualmin.com/user/7025/notifications You can unsubscribe at https://virtualmin.com/notifications/unsubscribe/sid/21?signature=a973c6...

Tony - is there a collectinfo.pl process running on the system at the moment? If so, kill it.

Then try running /etc/webmin/virtual-server/collectinfo.pl as root from the command line, and let us know how long it takes.

Hi Jamie,

Yes there was and yes I did kill it. I then ran it from command line and it took 15 seconds. No email was generated this time so maybe it was stuck somewhere.... Anything else I can check to see what might have caused it?

No more emails!

Would still like to know root cause if possible.