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? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://mail.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
