Re: [cobalt-users] crontab & exec problem.

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Jeff Lasman" <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Steve Werby wrote:
>
> > Jeff, I'm curious - why do you have the script wait 2 hours before
running
> > chkrootkit?
>
> Because I don't want it to run before 6 am <smile>????

A good a reason as any.  I thought maybe it was a solution to avoid running
it at a time when too many programs were running that gave false positives.
I suppose chkrootkit just isn't an early bird on your boxes.  <g>

> I just set this up today (it's been tested in cron.hourly first
> though).  My thought was I wanted it to run after everything else has
> been run.  Thinking it over though, that may be the wrong approach; I'll
> see what time it runs tomorrow morning.  Then I might just change the
> name of it to zzz-chkrootkit or similar.

If you want it to run at a specific time, consider using a user cron (user
root) so you can set the exact time.  I know we were involved in a thread,
probably on this list, where we discussed system cron verse user cron.

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