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

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sat May 26 05:16:12 UTC 2007


On Friday 25 May 2007, Tony Nelson wrote:
>At 2:13 AM -0400 5/25/07, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>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?
>
>That's the point of doing:
>
>    rpm -qf /etc/cron.daily/bugzilla
>
>and to learn more:
>
>    rpm -qilf /etc/cron.daily/bugzilla

Thanks Tony, I'll check that out too, when I have one eye open simultainiously 
again...
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