On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 11:26:41AM -0400, B.C.J.O wrote: > Apr 26 06:25:03 cain su[2536]: + ??? root-nobody > > ... and I can't figure out what the heck caused it. I haven't seen a line > like it before. Any ideas what kind of event would have caused this line > to be logged? all clues welcome. =) This is caused by /etc/cron.daily/find, which contains the line: cd / && updatedb --localuser=nobody 2>/dev/null ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ All that means is that updatedb is being run as user nobody. Unless you just installed findutils, or never had your machine up at 6:25 AM, then you should definitely have records of this happening more than once. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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