RE: [cobalt-users] RE: crontab error

["Cavan Kelly" <cavan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Batenburg wrote:


> Did you consider the fact that you might been hacked? crond is
> usualy also
> trojanned.

I suppose it's possible but, seeing as I was mucking about with crontab at
around the same time, it's more likely that I've done this myself.  How's
that for a bit of refreshing candor ;-)

I'm still open to suggestions on how to fix it though!

Cavan
>
> At 08:53 21-4-2001 -0400, you wrote:
> > >I've seen a couple of references in the archives to people having this
> > >problem but don't see that it was ever solved.
> >
> > >In making changes to crontab I have somehow managed to begin
> getting the
> > >following message emailed to me each time a cron job runs:
> >
> > >>From root  Sat Apr 21 01:01:01 2001
> > >>Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 01:01:01 -0400
> > >>From: root (Cron Daemon)
> > >>To: root
> > >>Subject: Cron <root@www> root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
> > >>X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/bash>
> > >>X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin>
> > >>X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=root>
> > >>X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/>
> > >>X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
> >
> > >>/bin/bash: root: command not found
> >
> > >I have now taken "root" out of each of the lines in the
> crontab file and
> > >it
> > >seems to be working but I wonder if I've caused myself some potential
> > >problems?
> >
> >OK, so it's worse than I thought...  It appears that I have two crontabs
> >running.  Last night my backup and webalizer both ran twice.
> >
> >I see only one instance of crond when I do ps -aux.  The list of
> jobs shows
> >up only once when I do crontab -l
> >
> >Ideas much appreciated