Plesk administrator receives Anacron “cron.daily” notifications

Symptoms

• Plesk Administrator receives a lot of notifications about Anacron job "cron.daily".

• Anacron configuration file /etc/anacrontab contains the MAILTO=root line.

Cause

This is expected behavior. By default, Plesk creates an alias for the root user using the Administrator email address that specified in the Profile page, so the messages that were sent to root are redirectred to the specified mailbox.

Resolution

To stop notifications from being sent, modify the /etc/anacrontab file:

1. Connect to the Plesk server via SSH.

2. Open the /etc/anacrontab file in a text editor. In this example, we are using the vi editor:

   # vi /etc/anacrontab

3. Remove the root user from the MAILTO line in /etc/anacrontab config file:

   ...
   MAILTO=""
   ...

4. Save the changes and close the file.