On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 11:56 -0700, j...@actionline.com wrote: > Joe last wrote: > >> Thanks Craig. > >> Re the permissions item, I neglected to say that the reported files and > >> directories are already set with the correct permissions, but those > >> claims of "wrong permissions" keep on coming anyway. > > Then Craig wrote: > > that defies my understanding of things so I struggle to believe it. > > > > what is output of say... > > ls -l /var/log/lpr > > In this case, the system is generating that particular log with all > -rw------- permissions, so why cron is generating an "error" > report to /var/log/lpr saying permissions should be 640 is strange. ---- umm...
> > And Craig also wrote: > > You might want to see what is actually in those files... > > (/etc/cron.hourly/*, etc.) and potentially edit or remove them as > > useful. I suspect the ones that are making you crazy are in the > > cron.hourly > > > > Clearly the 'promisc_check.sh' is in the hourly and that would seem to > > be a safety check from your distro and it is reporting to syslog which > > actually makes a lot of sense and I would probably just leave it alone > > (i.e. keep running the 'promiscuity check' every hour > > Thanks. That helped me discover what was going on. > It just didn't make sense to me that something in /etc/cron.hourly > would be generating an action every minute. > > And I still don't understand why something in /etc/cron.hourly is running > every minute rather than once every hour? > > Do most distros have something like this running every minute and adding > tens of thousands of entries to both syslog and messages plus in several > other places? Isn't that a sledgehammer swatting a gnat? Why is it > necessary to flood the logs with an entry for every minute that an action > like this runs? ---- I don't recall seeing this in Fedora, RHEL or CentOS but perhaps it is a package that you installed that I never install. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
