Re: [cobalt-users] Re: [RaQ3] cron.hourly

[Simon Billis <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I realised that I have a vanila raq3 with a slight addition of webalizer. Following is a listing of the cron directorys from /etc
cron.d:
kmod  webalizer
cron.daily:
logrotate  makewhatis.cron  ntpdate.auto  slocate.cron  tmpwatch  vacuumdb
cron.half-hourly:
cron.hourly:
cron.monthly:
cron.quarter-daily:
poprelayd.custodiat
cron.quarter-hourly:
cron.weekly:
makewhatis.cron

As you can see nothing unusual in any of the directories. I have to agree that your script in cron.hourly seems to be a little strange. Was there anything that you had installed that was not "standard config"? I can only say that this is where I would start to look.  I hope that this helps.

Simon

On Monday, April 2, 2001 5:23 pm, Robert Brownback <bobski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>You might need someone more experienced with Raq3's to answer this.
>Personally, I've not seen any scripts in cron.hourly unless the server
>was running INN or it was something I specifically put there.

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>My paranoia sets in when considering the latest BIND exploits. The fact
>that the script self destructed when edited would certainly raise my
>antennae. But then, I'm no expert on Raq3's, I may be wrong and it is
>just a quirky configuration. If someone out there knows better, I'll
>stand corrected.

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>> I seem to recall that later on in the script it restarted the DNS (but
>> without the script any more I cannot be sure).
>> Is there anything pressing that I should have in the cron.hourly if I have
>> to rebuild the script from scratch (It wasn't very long)?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Alex Thom
>> 
>> PS Sorry if this comes out as a new thread, but I'm not sure how to post a
>> reply to an existing message from the digest