Hey,
When I looked in /var/log/messages, I found this line and it looked strange.
What does it mean? Could this be a security hazard? Thanx.
PAM_pwdb[831]: (su) session opened for user nobody
Feb 7 04:04:09 PAM_pwdb[831]: (su) session close
by Scalli » Tue, 09 Feb 1999 04:00:00
When I looked in /var/log/messages, I found this line and it looked strange.
What does it mean? Could this be a security hazard? Thanx.
PAM_pwdb[831]: (su) session opened for user nobody
Feb 7 04:04:09 PAM_pwdb[831]: (su) session close
by Rob Kom » Tue, 09 Feb 1999 04:00:00
It's probably your `cron' daemon. If you have a RedHat
system, then cron runs the update database command at
that time every night. Look at /etc/crontab to see
what else is being run.
Cheers,
Rob Komar
by jami » Tue, 09 Feb 1999 04:00:00
>When I looked in /var/log/messages, I found this line and it looked strange.
>What does it mean? Could this be a security hazard? Thanx.
>PAM_pwdb[831]: (su) session opened for user nobody
>Feb 7 04:04:09 PAM_pwdb[831]: (su) session close
cat /var/spool/cron/crontabs/nobody
# This updates the database for 'locate' every day:
40 04 * * * updatedb 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null
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by Gregory G. Woodbu » Wed, 10 Feb 1999 04:00:00
>It's probably your `cron' daemon. If you have a RedHat
>system, then cron runs the update database command at
>that time every night. Look at /etc/crontab to see
>what else is being run.
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