Nightly cron message question
James A. Coulter
jacoulter at jacoulter.net
Wed Aug 18 07:17:31 PDT 2004
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
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