On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Steven Barker wrote: > On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 05:33:34PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > > > This weekend I got a strange log: > > > > Unusual System Events > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > Aug 11 06:25:03 alhandra su[3584]: + ??? root-nobody > > Aug 11 06:25:03 alhandra PAM_unix[3584]: (su) session opened for user > > nobody by > > +(uid=0) > > This is root (uid=0) becoming nobody. It's surely a cron job that is setup > to change user to nobody before running. The locate package runs updatedb > as nobody every day, for example.
Ah, k! Thanks for the quick reply! -- Rudy Gevaert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beifeld's Principle: The probability of a young man meeting a desirable and receptive young female increases by pyramidical progression when he is already in the company of (1) a date, (2) his wife, (3) a better-looking and richer male friend. -- R. Beifeld