-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for the heads up! I can confirm this behavior, as one of my smokers had the same crontab entry added.
All of my smokers now deny crontab access for the test account. cron.deny lives in a different place on each box I have, but man crontab always listed the location clearly. Jeff On Jul 17, 2011, at 11:41 AM, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams wrote: > I happened to notice this afternoon that the Ubic distribution is > adding a script to the crontab of the user that is running the > smoke testing. > > -bash-4.1$ crontab -l > > * * * * * ubic-watchdog ubic.watchdog >>/dev/null 2>>/dev/null > -bash-4.1$ > > I have found this on all my smokers so far. > > I am removing the crontab entry and adding the test account on each > machine to the list of users denied crontab access. > > This seems to be /var/cron/deny on a lot of OS, but consult local > documentation to be sure. > > Cheers, > > -- > Chris Williams > aka BinGOs > PGP ID 0x4658671F > http://www.gumbynet.org.uk > ========================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAk4jaP4ACgkQAfBzCes16ciikQCdHfHm/aMWwjappFDz+YTPml25 DGkAnjn7tW8GG/0LAFMoZ3DQeulhC0xJ =WTwJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
