On Sunday 20 July 2008 21:23:52 Stephen Harris wrote:
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 07:18:05PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Sunday 20 July 2008 17:44:23 Bill Campbell wrote:
Does anything show up with ``find /var/spool/cron -type f''?
/var/spool/cron/apache /var/spool/cron/rpc
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Wow, looks like somebody or something has created crontab entries for every user on your machine. That's wrong. Typically, out of the box, there are no entries.
What does find /var/spool/cron -type f ! -size 0 show?
Does that mean 'not = size 0'?
/var/spool/cron/anne /var/spool/cron/root /var/spool/cron/david
These are as expected. They run rsync commands for backup.
Hopefully it will be nothing.
This can be used to delete all the zero length entries: find /var/spool/cron -type f -size 0 -exec rm {} ;
Now this is a cleanup of the problem, but it doesn't explain _how_ those entries were created in the first place. Are you using some form of automated admin interface?
I can't think of anything that explains this. I have a 6-month-old CentOS 5.2 install, with nothing out of the ordinary, as far as I can recall.
Anne