RE: [cobalt-users] Another Cron Question .. A little more strange ...

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>Subject: [cobalt-users] Another Cron Question .. A little more strange
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>Hey guys .. I know I asked the question about the Truncating Oversized Field
>cron
>problem.   But now I have another one.  This one is in cron.weekly
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>zcat: stdout: Broken pipe
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>I got that this morning .. and there is roughly 30 of them ..
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>Any idea what would cause this?
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>Thanks.
>Michael

Same error on 3 of my servers after the lastest patches. 

Hmmm...could this have something to do with it? :

Security: vixie-cron Update 1.0.1 

HTTP RaQ4-All-Security-1.0.1-9648.pkg Posted: March 2, 2001 
FTP Point your FTP client to ftp://ftp.cobalt.com Size: 31,448 bytes 
 
This patch upgrades the version of vixie-cron to 3.0.1-40. 
This version of vixie-cron addresses the following security issue, 
which existed in previous versions. A buffer overflow existed in the 'crontab' command: 
if called by a user with a username longer than 20 characters, it would be 
possible for that user to gain elevated privileges.