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PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 3:35 am    Post subject: what is "test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sb Reply with quote

Hi,

I have been running a little web server for a few years and last night it sent me an email that was new to me. The body reads:

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which: no curl in (/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin)
--05:30:02-- http://pciids.sourceforge.net/v2.2/pci.ids.bz2
=> `/usr/share/misc/pci.ids.new'
Resolving pciids.sourceforge.net... 66.35.250.209
Connecting to pciids.sourceforge.net|66.35.250.209|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 121,316 (118K) [text/plain]

0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 42% 53.8K 0:01
50K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 84% 210K
100K .......... ........ 100% 92.4K

05:30:04 (86.65 KB/s) - `/usr/share/misc/pci.ids.new' saved [121316/121316]

Done.


This is kicked off by the following entry in /etc/crontab

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*/10  *  * * *  root    test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons


It doesn't look malicious, but it is a bit odd. Anyone know why it is there and why it suddenly activated?

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 5:41 am    Post subject: Re: what is "test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /us Reply with quote

Hi,

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which: no curl in (/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin)
--05:30:02-- http://pciids.sourceforge.net/v2.2/pci.ids.bz2
=> `/usr/share/misc/pci.ids.new'
Resolving pciids.sourceforge.net... 66.35.250.209
Connecting to pciids.sourceforge.net|66.35.250.209|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 121,316 (118K) [text/plain]

0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 42% 53.8K 0:01
50K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 84% 210K
100K .......... ........ 100% 92.4K

05:30:04 (86.65 KB/s) - `/usr/share/misc/pci.ids.new' saved [121316/121316]

Done.


This is output of the cron "/etc/cron.monthly/update-pciids", which "downloads new version of the PCI ID list" the manual says... I guess that's for new hardware support :)

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*/10  *  * * *  root    test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons
Test checks if the run-crons script is executable (executable bit on), if so then it will be run. Nothing new, worked always this way.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 6:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the comforting news. Perhaps my email filters have started sorting it differently, so I have suddenly seen it.

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Moved from Networking & Security to Duplicate Threads, as thisissue was already discussed in topic "Unexpected cron output - could it be a system compromise?".
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