From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 20 9: 1: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sol.cc.u-szeged.hu (sol.cc.u-szeged.hu [160.114.8.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2189337B6BD for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 09:00:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu) Received: from petra.hos.u-szeged.hu by sol.cc.u-szeged.hu (8.9.3+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id SAA19572; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 18:01:21 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from sziszi by petra.hos.u-szeged.hu with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 134QSI-0002P7-00 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 18:00:50 +0200 Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 18:00:50 +0200 From: Szilveszter Adam To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange behavior of cron Message-ID: <20000620180050.A6206@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> Mail-Followup-To: stable@freebsd.org References: <200006201501.LAA53867@giganda.komkon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200006201501.LAA53867@giganda.komkon.org>; from str@giganda.komkon.org on Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 11:01:49AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 11:01:49AM -0400, Igor Roshchin wrote: > > Hello! > > Sorry for messing up some people's mailboxes. > When I sent the original message, I just "cut-and-pasted" > messages without shifting "From" in the first position. > (I used regular mail in FreeBSD). > As a result some people's mail agents could've considered > these three included messages as separate messages. > (Note, that I replaced the name of my host as "host". > Normally it should be the host name of yours) > > Anyway, > last night I observed the same type of messages again. > (from cron - see an example of one message below ) > > It's rather strange that cron has these problems only in night. > (second night in a row). Because what it tries to do gets only executed at night by default, because it is part of the regular system maintenance routine AFAIK. > I wonder if this could be a result of some attack against this > host that prevents cron working properly. See are you sure that the command itself it tries to execute succeeds? What happens when you issue the command 'adjkerntz -a' as root by hand? -- Regards: Szilveszter ADAM Szeged University Szeged Hungary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message