Nightly cron message question

[James A. Coulter]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:04:48AM -0500, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
> Jason Lieurance wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >
> >Late couple days on our Freebsd 4.7 email/web server I've got this message 
> >in the
> >nightly cron jobs:
> >
> >
> >Checking setuid files and devices:
> >
> >Checking for uids of 0:
> >root 0
> >toor 0
> >
> > 
> >
> 
> You have this line:
> 
> 
>    # 300.chkuid0
>    daily_status_security_chkuid0_enable="YES"
> 
>    set in "/etc/defaults/periodic.conf" under the
> "Security Options" heading, most likely.  I was under
> the impression that this was set by default, as that
> is the name of the directory it's in.   I would be curious
> as to why this wasn't happening before.
> 
> Check the dates on said file and directory.  Have
> you recently run "mergemaster", perhaps?
> 
> 
> >I've searched and some said it had to do with an incomplete dmesg or 
> >something like
> >that. There are some errors:
> > 
> >
> >><>pid 82522 (libhttpd.ep), uid 65534: exited on signal 11
> >><snip>
> >>
> 
> Something dumped core or what not, then.
> 
> >><>but I've had those before w/o the:
> >>
> >>Checking for uids of 0:
> >><snip>
> >>Any thoughts, thanks.
> >
> 
> Like I said, completely normal, although why they weren't
> coming in before I can't guess....
> 
> Kevin Kinsey
> DaleCo, S.P.

FWIW, I also began seeing the same message in my daily cron output file
as well two days ago.

Jim