On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:04:00PM +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'? "not (size = 0)", but yeah. > /var/spool/cron/anne > /var/spool/cron/root > /var/spool/cron/david > > These are as expected. They run rsync commands for backup. OK, so all the others can (and probably should) be deleted. > 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. I doubt it; 5.2 hasn't been around for 6 months; the release announcement for 5.2 is dated Jun 24; http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-June/014999.html Could have been a 5.1 install -- rgds Stephen