Related to cron.daily

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Swapana Ghosh wrote:
> Hi
>
> >>Pointer to what?  You haven't said what the problem is.  You did alude to
> >>something about webalizer.pl, but there's no information on what is wrong.
> >>Is webalizer.pl not running per a cronjob?  If so, then say so.  Of couse
> >>the fact that its sitting in cron.daily2 sounds like the reason why.
>
> I want that webalizer.pl should not run...But i am seeing that at the time of
> logrotaion this program is running though after checking, it is found that
> *webalizer.pl* exists only under /etc/cron.daily2...  We did not set
> cron.daily2 under /etc/crontab , so  by logic says this program should not
> run....
>
> My question is how come this program is running?

Its getting called from somewhere.  Maybe /etc/crontab?  Maybe root's
crontab.  Maybe from within a diferent cronjob.  At this point the better
question is how good is you security when you have foreign cronjobs
running on the box that you can't track down?

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