[CentOS] Cron error

Tony Schreiner schreian at bc.edu
Sat Apr 21 12:48:58 UTC 2007


On Apr 21, 2007, at 6:09 AM, Michael Velez wrote:

> Hello,
>
> This morning, root received an e-mail from the cron daemon as the  
> following:
>
> --------------------------------
> Subject: Cron <root> run-parts /etc/cron.daily
>
> /etc/cron.daily:00webalizer:
>
> Warning: Truncating oversized referrer field
> --------------------------------
>
> 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.
>
> I did do a reboot yesterday which was the first one in a few weeks.
>
> Does anybody know what this message is?
>
> Michael

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.

Tony Schreiner

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