fedora-list Digest, Vol 15, Issue 160

[Saurabh Barve]

Message: 14
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 12:00:54 -0400
From: James Kosin <jkosin at beta.intcomgrp.com>
Subject: Re: cron jobs not being run
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Message-ID: <428B66B6.20601 at beta.intcomgrp.com>
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Saurabh Barve wrote:

| Hi,
|
| I am running FC2 here. There are a number of cron jobs in
| /etc/cron.daily - makewhatis, webalizer,
| chkrootkit,freshclam,squirrelmail, tetex, yum, etc. However, when I
| see the Cron report, only the yum jobs is being reported as run.
| Some of the cron jobs, the chkrootkit one for example, are set to
| send an e-mail to the root account, but I never get one.
|
| Why am I not seeing any reports/logs being generated from these cron
| jobs?
|
| Saurabh.

Hi,

Most cron jobs only produce output if there is a problem that needs
attention.  What happens, is that stdoutput and stderror are directed
to an email.  If the output is blank, ie. no output is generated by
the command, then cron disregards sending an email.

James
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Well, that is strange because the clamscan cron job for my machine is 
set to scan the mail folders of all users for all users, and e-mail 
output to root:
---
clamscan -r /var/spool/mail 2>&1 | mail -s "ClamScan Output" root
---

and I don't get any reports in my cron logs. However, when I run 
clamscan on the same directory on the command line, it shows 4 files as 
being infected. That is a problem that needs attention. That is an 
output that I would like to know.

Maybe something wrong with the command in the cron file?

Saurabh.

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Saurabh Barve
sa at atmos.colostate.edu
(970)491-7714