[CentOS] hourly log

[Steven Vishoot]

--- Robert <roberth at abbacomm.net> wrote:

> greetings
> 
> on a simple CentOS 4 DNS server install i have the
> below info.
> 
> crontab -l "shows nothing"
> 
> pico /etc/crontab   shows...
> 
> 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
> 
> i have searched and looked and fiddled yet... ummm
> dunno...
> 
> ...and i have nothing in /etc/cron.hourly or
> /etc/cron.d among other places
> yet ever hour my logfile gets touched so to speak
> with this stuff and i have
> virtually every daemon shutoff so i am trying to
> figure out what it is that
> is doing this and would sincerely appreciate any
> help.
> 
> what did i space or forget please?
> 
> Sep 11 05:01:01 ns1 crond(pam_unix)[27023]: session
> opened for user root by
> (uid=0)
> Sep 11 05:01:01 ns1 crond(pam_unix)[27023]: session
> closed for user root
> Sep 11 06:01:01 ns1 crond(pam_unix)[27027]: session
> opened for user root by
> (uid=0)
> Sep 11 06:01:01 ns1 crond(pam_unix)[27027]: session
> closed for user root
> Sep 11 07:01:01 ns1 crond(pam_unix)[27031]: session
> opened for user root by
> (uid=0)
> Sep 11 07:01:01 ns1 crond(pam_unix)[27031]: session
> closed for user root
> Sep 11 08:01:01 ns1 crond(pam_unix)[27035]: session
> opened for user root by
> (uid=0)
> Sep 11 08:01:01 ns1 crond(pam_unix)[27035]: session
> closed for user root
> 
> im sure i am missing something really simple.
> 
> tia and regards,
> 
>  - rh
> 
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> www.abbacomm.net
> 
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Robert,

try looking in the /etc/log.d/conf/logwatch.conf file
and see if that has it. I know the other stuff is in
there about the other logs.

Steven
 

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