[CentOS] crontab for nobody
John Horne
john.horne at plymouth.ac.uk
Sun Jul 20 21:31:22 UTC 2008
On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 22:04 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 20 July 2008 21:23:52 Stephen Harris wrote:
> >
> > What does
> > find /var/spool/cron -type f ! -size 0
> > show?
> >
> Does that mean 'not = size 0'?
>
Yes.
>
> 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.
>
Your previous message showed:
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jul 7 16:07 /var/spool/cron/nobody
This will be the last modification date/time, and possibly the creation
date/time if the file was not modified at all. So something around July
7 presumably caused it. If you have the old /var/log/messages files from
around that date, then looking through those might show something. As
might a /var/log/yum.log file which could indicate if something was
automatically installed.
John.
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