weird cron log

Tue Jun 27 20:45:00 UTC 2006

My server does it also - i think it is cron running awstats for website
traffic

On 6/27/06, Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 14:29 -0400, kalin mintchev wrote:
> > anybody?
> >
> > >
> > >  hi all...
> > >
> > > i was looking on google. found some unresolved threads...
> > >
> > > the machine is a fedora 3:
> > > Linux cellphone 2.6.9-1.667 #1 Tue Nov 2 14:41:25 EST 2004 i686 athlon
> > > i386 GNU/Linux
> > >
> > > looking at the messages log i saw 2 weird things there today:
> > >
> > > 1. there are entries from "Jun 26 17:xx:xx" before entries from "Jun
> 26
> > > 16:xx:xx"?!? and entries from "Jun 26 09:36:51" that are in between
> "Jun
> > > 26 16:xx:xx" stamped records?!! how is that possible?!?
>
> The files are created sequentially on-the-fly.  If you changed time on
> the machine, then the timestamps in the file can be switched.  Look at
> the last line of the log entries you submitted...did your machine
> suddenly switch to daylight savings time at that point?
>
> > > and
> > > 2. each hour after the first minute of it there is something like:
> > > Jun 26 15:01:01 cellphone crond(pam_unix)[19571]: session opened for
> user
> > > root by (uid=0)
> > >
> > > there are no cron.hourly files.. and nothing for crontab -l. so i'm
> not
> > > sure what that entry means...
> > > any ideas?
>
> These are from the system crontab, /etc/crontab.  It has a job that
> fires up every hour at 1 minute after the hour to run anything in
> /etc/cron.hourly.  However, it starts the shell BEFORE it realizes
> there's nothing in /etc/cron.hourly and that's what you're seeing--the
> shell launch.  Note in your items below that the shell lasts for less
> than a second.
>
> If it's truly annoying, then edit /etc/crontab and comment out the
>
>         01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
>
> line and it'll go away.
>
> > >
> > > any clarification would be appreciated...  thanks......
> > >
> > > here is a log piece:
> > >
> > > .........................................
> > > Jun 26 13:01:01 cellphone crond(pam_unix)[18815]: session opened for
> user
> > > root by (uid=0)
> > > Jun 26 13:01:01 cellphone crond(pam_unix)[18815]: session closed for
> user
> > > root
> > > Jun 26 13:56:05 cellphone sshd(pam_unix)[6481]: session closed for
> user
> > > steve
> > > Jun 26 13:56:05 cellphone su(pam_unix)[6524]: session closed for user
> root
> > > Jun 26 14:01:01 cellphone crond(pam_unix)[19123]: session opened for
> user
> > > root by (uid=0)
> > > Jun 26 14:01:01 cellphone crond(pam_unix)[19123]: session closed for
> user
> > > root
> > > Jun 26 15:01:01 cellphone crond(pam_unix)[19571]: session opened for
> user
> > > root by (uid=0)
> > > Jun 26 15:01:01 cellphone crond(pam_unix)[19571]: session closed for
> user
> > > root
> > > Jun 26 16:01:01 cellphone crond(pam_unix)[19981]: session opened for
> user
> > > root by (uid=0)
> > > Jun 26 16:01:01 cellphone crond(pam_unix)[19981]: session closed for
> user
> > > root
> > > Jun 26 17:01:01 cellphone crond(pam_unix)[20440]: session opened for
> user
> > > root by (uid=0)
> > > Jun 26 17:01:01 cellphone crond(pam_unix)[20440]: session closed for
> user
> > > rootJun 26 17:29:44 cellphone kernel: input: AT Raw Set 2 keyboard on
> > > isa0060/serio0
> > > Jun 26 17:29:44 cellphone hal.hotplug[20659]: DEVPATH is not set
> > > Jun 26 17:29:44 cellphone hal.hotplug[20653]: DEVPATH is not set
> > > Jun 26 17:31:51 cellphone hal.hotplug[20723]: DEVPATH is not set
> > > Jun 26 17:31:51 cellphone hal.hotplug[20742]: DEVPATH is not set
> > > Jun 26 17:31:51 cellphone kernel: input: AT Raw Set 2 keyboard on
> > > isa0060/serio0
> > > Jun 26 16:37:22 cellphone syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> > > Jun 26 16:37:22 cellphone syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
> > > Jun 26 16:37:22 cellphone kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg
> > > started.
> > > Jun 26 16:37:22 cellphone kernel: Linux version 2.6.9-1.667
> > > (bhcompile at tweety.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.4.2 20041017 (Red
> Hat
> > > 3.4.2-6.fc3)) #1 Tue Nov 2 14:41:25 EST 2004
> > > Jun 26 16:37:22 cellphone kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> > >
> > > ..................
> > >
> > > Jun 26 16:37:24 cellphone rc: Starting lm_sensors:  succeeded
> > > Jun 26 16:37:24 cellphone autofs: automount startup succeeded
> > > Jun 26 09:36:49 cellphone rc.sysinit: -e
> > > Jun 26 09:36:49 cellphone udevsend[750]: starting udevd daemon
> > > Jun 26 09:36:50 cellphone scsi.agent[762]: disk at
> > > /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0f.0/host1/1:0:0:0
> > > Jun 26 09:36:51 cellphone start_udev: Starting udev:  succeeded
> > > Jun 26 09:36:51 cellphone udevsend[1098]: starting udevd daemon
> > > Jun 26 09:36:57 cellphone rc.sysinit: -e
> > > Jun 26 09:36:57 cellphone ieee1394.agent[1588]: ... no drivers for
> > > IEEE1394 product 0x/0x/0x
> > > Jun 26 09:36:58 cellphone ieee1394.agent[1630]: ... no drivers for
> > > IEEE1394 product 0x/0x/0x
> > > Jun 26 09:37:03 cellphone sysctl: net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
> > > Jun 26 09:37:03 cellphone sysctl: net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
> > > Jun 26 09:37:03 cellphone sysctl:
> > > net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_source_route = 0
> > > Jun 26 09:37:03 cellphone sysctl: kernel.sysrq = 0
> > > Jun 26 09:37:03 cellphone sysctl: kernel.core_uses_pid = 1
> > > Jun 26 09:37:03 cellphone rc.sysinit: Configuring kernel parameters:
> > > succeeded
> > > Jun 26 16:37:03 cellphone date: Mon Jun 26 16:37:03 PDT 2006
> > > Jun 26 16:37:03 cellphone rc.sysinit: Setting clock  (localtime): Mon
> Jun
> > > 26 16:37:03 PDT 2006 succeeded
>
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