Lots of crond syslog messages...why?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am So, den 29.05.2005 schrieb Gerry Doris um 17:48:

> I had a nice stable FC2 system that been running for ages.  I finally 
> decided to upgrade yesterday to FC3 and have now managed to get pretty well 
> everything working again.  However, I do have one problem that I just can't 
> find.
> 
> I get the following messages occurring every 5min in my syslog:
> 
> May 29 10:55:01 tiger crond(pam_unix)[5071]: session opened for user root by 
> (uid=0)
> May 29 10:55:01 tiger crond(pam_unix)[5069]: session opened for user root by 
> (uid=0)
> May 29 10:55:01 tiger crond(pam_unix)[5070]: session opened for user root by 
> (uid=0)
> May 29 10:55:01 tiger crond(pam_unix)[5073]: session opened for user root by 
> (uid=0)
> May 29 10:55:02 tiger crond(pam_unix)[5069]: session closed for user root
> May 29 10:55:04 tiger crond(pam_unix)[5071]: session closed for user root
> May 29 10:55:15 tiger crond(pam_unix)[5070]: session closed for user root
> May 29 10:55:33 tiger crond(pam_unix)[5073]: session closed for user root
> 
> I've looked at crontab and crond and commented out anything that was running 
> at 5min intervals without effect.  Is this something that happens on FC3 or 
> is there something still broken?  Any pointers where else to look??? 

A process must be remaining, being called from cron (crontab -l -u root
|| /etc/cron.d/). "tail -f /var/log/cron" could help you to find out.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&m=110077335618263&w=2

Alexander


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