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Plesk administrator receives Anacron "cron.daily" notifications

Kuzma Ivanov

Updated January 13, 2026 19:12

Plesk for Linux kb: technical

Applicable to:

Plesk for Linux

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:

Connect to the Plesk server via SSH.
Open the /etc/anacrontab file in a text editor. In this example, we are using the vi editor:

# vi /etc/anacrontab
Remove the root user from the MAILTO line in /etc/anacrontab config file:

CONFIG_TEXT: ...
MAILTO=""
...
Save the changes and close the file.

Comments

2 comments

Ralph Ballier
June 28, 2024 09:25

There is no file named /etc/anacrontab

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Felix Gade
August 08, 2024 16:03

If you are looking for a solution to the error

run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/pleskupdate exited with return code 1

that you receive daily via email, then the following might help: https://talk.plesk.com/threads/run-parts-etc-cron-daily-pleskupdate-exited-with-return-code-1.372972/#post-942043

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