On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 09:48:49AM +0200, Rob Kaper wrote: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 10:37:32AM +0300, Debian User wrote: > > My /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog files looks very strange. I > > attached them to this mail. Can you tell me why the lines are marked like > > this ? I have installed potato. > > > Oct 10 08:08:01 ady /USR/SBIN/CRON[5987]: (mail) CMD ( if [ -x > > /usr/sbin/exim -a -f /etc/exim.conf ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -q >/dev/null > > 2>&1; fi) > > This means the program 'exim' is run by crond, so it is probably in the > crontab of you or one of your users. I doubt that is a security risk, but in > case you do not know about exim and what it does you might want to > investigate.
exim is a sendmail replacement. the cron job just flushes the mail queue, I suppose. Michael Würtz -- Michael Wuertz * magic is real - unless declared integer *
