> When I run ps ax on my linux box (Red Hat 7.1), I see a strange script
> running that I've never seen before. All I can get out of the ps listing
is
> the following.
>
> awk -v progname=/etc/cron.hourly/sysstat progname {????? print progname
> ":\n"????? progname="";???? }????
>
> I've never seen this before. Do you think I might have been broken into?
Don't worry, it is a standard cron process running by default for system
accounting
you can just delete the script from the dir /etc/cron.hourly if you don't
need system accounting
Cya!
Roberto Barbieri
RedHat Linux Trainer
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