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Richard n00b
Joined: 21 Nov 2002 Posts: 34 Location: Australia
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Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 3:35 am Post subject: what is "test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sb |
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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:
Quote: | 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
Code: | */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?
regards
richard |
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lost+found Guru
Joined: 15 Nov 2004 Posts: 509 Location: North~Sea~Coa~s~~t~~~
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Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 5:41 am Post subject: Re: what is "test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /us |
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Hi,
Quote: | 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
Quote: | Code: | */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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Richard n00b
Joined: 21 Nov 2002 Posts: 34 Location: Australia
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Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 6:07 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the comforting news. Perhaps my email filters have started sorting it differently, so I have suddenly seen it.
regards
Richard |
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desultory Bodhisattva
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