cron jobs
Peter Barker
pbarker at barker.dropbear.id.au
Wed Aug 1 16:25:29 EST 2001
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Grant Morphett wrote:
> On a friends machine there is a cron job that runs every 4 minutes
> (fetchmail). Now, I have looked everywhere and I can't find where
> this cron job is being run from. I grep'd the entire /etc directory
> for the word "fetch" in any case and there is nothing in root's home
> directory (this cron job is run as root).
- Could be running a "~/getmail.sh" script or similar (i.e. grep
unsuccessful for odd reasons)
- running fetchmail in daemon mode?
- I assume that was a "grep -r".
- strace crond (as root), see what it execs?
> cheers
Yours,
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