Fwd: Cron <root at coyote> run-parts /etc/cron.daily

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 24 May 2007, Tony Nelson wrote:
>At 10:22 PM -0400 5/23/07, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>Does anyone have a clue what this is all about?  I haven't mucked with
>>bugzilla in a week or more, & never on this machine, just on a web page
>> from somebody elses.
>>
>>----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
>>
>>Subject: Cron <root at coyote> run-parts /etc/cron.daily
>>Date: Wednesday 23 May 2007
>>From: Cron Daemon <root at coyote.coyote.den>
>>To: root at coyote.coyote.den
>>
>>/etc/cron.daily/bugzilla:
>
> ...
>
>The script /etc/cron.daily/bugzilla had a problem.  To find out what
>package it's from:
>
>    rpm -qf /etc/cron.daily/bugzilla
>
>and to learn more:
>
>    rpm -qilf /etc/cron.daily/bugzilla
>
>If there was a recent update to that package, you should look for .rpmnew
>files.  I just look at all of them from time to time:
>
>    find / -name '*\.rpm?*'
>
>If there are some that are interesting, compare them to the current files:
>
>    diff -u /etc/interesting.conf /etc/interesting.conf.rpmnew | less
>
>Also look at the changelog:
>
>    rpm -qf /etc/cron.daily/bugzilla --changelog | less
>
>Search bugzilla at <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/> for
>/etc/cron.daily/bugzilla or just bugzilla (probably too many hits though).
>
>Look at the script:
>
>    less /etc/cron.daily/bugzilla
>
>If you just don't want that script at all, disable it with:
>
>    chmod -x /etc/cron.daily/bugzilla

Thanks, I'll check this out.  

The point being, that I wasn't running a bugzilla that I knew of.

So I'm wondering what started it?

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