
<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 21, 2007, at 6:09 AM, Michael Velez wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV><SPAN class="156560310-21042007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Hello,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="156560310-21042007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="156560310-21042007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">This morning, root received an e-mail from the cron daemon as the following:</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="156560310-21042007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="156560310-21042007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">--------------------------------</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="156560310-21042007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Subject: Cron <root> run-parts /etc/cron.daily</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="156560310-21042007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="156560310-21042007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">/etc/cron.daily:00webalizer:</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="156560310-21042007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="156560310-21042007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Warning: Truncating oversized referrer field</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="156560310-21042007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">--------------------------------</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="156560310-21042007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="156560310-21042007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">I haven't changed anything to cron or to my intranet website (I'm assuming that's what the webalizer is about) in the last few days.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="156560310-21042007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="156560310-21042007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">I did do a reboot yesterday which was the first one in a few weeks.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="156560310-21042007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="156560310-21042007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Does anybody know what this message is?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="156560310-21042007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class="156560310-21042007"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Michael</FONT></SPAN></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Some numbnuts is probing your web server. If you look through your access_logs you'll probably find a very long referrer URL. Webalizer is choking on it and truncating it, not a big deal.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Tony Schreiner</DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>