On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, eric nelson wrote: > Thanks. I did find today that there is nothing in the cron. I'll check > inetd. Do you recommend setting the bios clock to local time? I guess I > should use a high debug level of logging, so there's lots of data. What > other files besides /var/log/messages? > I'll be away from work 3 days, might get back to you if I still can't figure > it out. make files don't work too well with this situation :~(
Not all jobs will always show up in cron as by root or local users. I have found /etc/cron.*/* anacrontab cron.d cron.daily cron.monthly cron.weekly crontab cvs-cron.conf See if you have these, and review them too. If after checking /var/spool/cron, /etc/cron*, /etc/at* and verifying that you have no other at/cron packages (cron, anacron, etc) installed, and no daemonized ntp clients, and reviewing log files to see when the date/time-stamps change (the change in time should tell you *when* the problem is occuring) and none of these helps you to find the offending app, perhaps it is being called into being by another system update tool.(?) This makes it more difficult. The time that the event occurs should help you to narrow the group of apps that could call it. Disable half and see if it goes away, if it does, then examine the half you disabled and re-enable half. If it comes back, then suspect the 25% you have left. Continue in this binary search and divide till you find it. Also? Maybe do a man -k date and man -k clock and man -k time looking for applications that can change the clock. Then mv these to different names (like $0.oirg) and then write a bash wrapper that records PPID and date/time into a file as well as a ps -auxw | grep $PPID to see the name of the process and dump this info into a file, and then pass on the args $@ to the real application $0.orig) This seems time consuming, but is one of the many many approaches you have available at your disaposal to solve this problem. Others here may have other alternatives. If you have found all clock/date modifying binaries on your system, and wrapped them to still find nothing, suspect multiple personality disorder or someone pulling a prank on you. (Hope my general joke is not offensive.) When you all were talking about Linux newbies: I still consider myself a *NIX newbie. ]:> Yatta! -ME -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS/CM$/IT$/LS$/S/O$ !d--(++) !s !a+++(-----) C++$(++++) U++++$(+$) P+$>+++ L+++$(++) E W+++$(+) N+ o K w+$>++>+++ O-@ M+$ V-$>- !PS !PE Y+ !PGP t@-(++) 5+@ X@ R- tv- b++ DI+++ D+ G--@ e+>++>++++ h(++)>+ r*>? z? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ decode: http://www.ebb.org/ungeek/ about: http://www.geekcode.com/geek.html _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
