Strange messages in syslog

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 05:09:07PM -0600, Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:
 
 > Mar 23 16:55:01 Blackhawk crond(pam_unix)[6028]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)
 > Mar 23 16:55:01 Blackhawk crond(pam_unix)[6028]: session closed for user root
                             ^^^^^
 
 > As you can see the session lasts less than a second. What does this 
 > mean? Are these processes that require root access that open the session 
 > and as soon as these services are done, close it??

It's cron.

 > PS: I know this may not be the best place to post this, if so, what 
 > would be the best place to post this?

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		Dave