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 > > [43 more lines deleted] > > 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080720/18887b25/attachment-0005.sig>