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Viktor Gurov wrote:

You need to check "Disable Cron emails" option
see #10771

Option is already checked, I've also tried unchecking it but still same problem.

Abdul Khaliq wrote:

Viktor Gurov wrote:

You need to check "Disable Cron emails" option
see #10771

Option is already checked, I've also tried unchecking it but still same problem.

I also have this same issue. Started happening a few days ago after I changed some firewall rules and hit apply.
I'm also on the same version too.
I have 2 pfSense machines in a HA cluster and I also started getting the emails from the secondary pfSense machine at hte same time too.
So this clearly had something to do with adding the extra firewall rules.

I ended up removing arpwatch off the secondary firewall and that stopped the emails I was getting.
The only thing I haven't done is try rebooting to see if that clears this issue.
I did try disabling arpwatch and re-enabling it again. That didn;t solve the problem.
And i've also tried reinstalling arpwatch too, and that also didn;t make a difference.

Adam French wrote:

Abdul Khaliq wrote:

Viktor Gurov wrote:

You need to check "Disable Cron emails" option
see #10771

Option is already checked, I've also tried unchecking it but still same problem.

I also have this same issue. Started happening a few days ago after I changed some firewall rules and hit apply.
I'm also on the same version too.
I have 2 pfSense machines in a HA cluster and I also started getting the emails from the secondary pfSense machine at hte same time too.
So this clearly had something to do with adding the extra firewall rules.

I ended up removing arpwatch off the secondary firewall and that stopped the emails I was getting.
The only thing I haven't done is try rebooting to see if that clears this issue.

I rebooted my system, then installed and rebooted again but that didn't help. I also have 2.5.0RC installed and it does it on that as well.

I found the bug in arpwatch.

The bug is in the file: /usr/local/arpwatch/sendmail_proxy.php

In the statement:
...
if ((false !== $message) && ((false === strpos($message, ': Cron ')) ||
($config['installedpackages']['arpwatch']['config'][0]['cron_disable'] != 'on'))) {
...

The key at 'cron_disable' is incorrect. The correct value should be, 'disable_cron'

The global_config shows 'disable_cron' as the correct key name.

I've tested it and I no longer get a useless email every time my Suricata cron script runs daily.

Thanks, your fix seems to have done the job, I haven't received any useless emails so far.

Edward Thomas wrote:

I found the bug in arpwatch.

The bug is in the file: /usr/local/arpwatch/sendmail_proxy.php

In the statement:
...
if ((false !== $message) && ((false === strpos($message, ': Cron ')) ||
($config['installedpackages']['arpwatch']['config'][0]['cron_disable'] != 'on'))) {
...

The key at 'cron_disable' is incorrect. The correct value should be, 'disable_cron'

The global_config shows 'disable_cron' as the correct key name.

I've tested it and I no longer get a useless email every time my Suricata cron script runs daily.

fix:
https://gitlab.netgate.com/pfSense/FreeBSD-ports/-/merge_requests/72

Just checking on the status of this. I updated to the latest version of pfSense, 2.5.1-RELEASE (amd64), and it reverted to the incorrect 'sendmail_proxy.php' file. I had to re-apply the fix.

Will this fix eventually make it to production?

Thank you.

I've checked on 2.5.2 and I see correct value 'disable cron' in /usr/local/arpwatch/sendmail_proxy.php

if ((false !== $message) && ((false === strpos($message, ': Cron ')) ||
($config['installedpackages']['arpwatch']['config'][0]['disable_cron'] != 'on')))