On Thu, April 14, 2005 10:52 am, Mário Gamito said:
Hi,
I've installed CentOS-4 4 days ago.
Now, every 5 minutes, crond opens and close a root session, with no other info. Example:
Apr 14 16:25:01 tux crond(pam_unix)[4031]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) Apr 14 16:25:02 tux crond(pam_unix)[4031]: session closed for user root
Every five minutes the same thing.
I have nothing in /etc/crontab that makes such a thing.
Does anyone knows why is this happening and what is crond doing ?
Any help would be apreciated.
/etc/crontab:
[root@tux cron.daily]# cat /etc/crontab SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root HOME=/
# run-parts 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily 22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly 00 3 * * 5 root /usr/local/bin/backup [root@tux cron.daily]#
Believe it or not, this is a normal thing. Crond logs in as root at least every 5 minutes. The way the system is setup by default, that will cause a log entry.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-February/msg06858.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-February/msg06867.html
It needs to fixed (in my opinion) ... I'll see what I can figure out.