[CLUE-Tech] Re:fstab / cron / RedHat / Duck 8.2

Joe Linux joelinux at earthlink.net
Wed May 22 19:54:16 MDT 2002


If this is addressed to me, I've sort of temporarily switched to RedHat 7.3
which has sort  of crummy display characteristics.   I 'll send my Mandrake
fstab tomorrow.  It's possible the /home is in fact a separate partition and
that could be at the heart of the problem.

"Jed S. Baer" wrote:

> On Wed, 22 May 2002 18:59:16 -0400 (EDT)
> "David Jackson" <david.j.jackson at pickledbeans.com> wrote:
>
> > Joe --
> > You have to use -R flag for recursive.
>
> Well, I don't recall the original question too well, and I can't find it.
> I'd be pretty leary of doing a recursive chattr on a home directory, or
> any directory, for that matter.
>
> > This is a bandaid solutions you need to find the script that runs
> > a schedule job that does this.
> >
> > su - # not su
>
> Not necessary. The - causes su to set the login environment. Doesn't
> affect your ability to use commands.
>
> > crontab -l # this will tell you what jobs are scheduled as to run
> > automaticly as part of root cron.
>
> Also not.
>
> # crontab -l
> no crontab for root
>
> # ls /etc/cron*
> /etc/crontab
>
> /etc/cron.d:
> sysstat
>
> /etc/cron.daily:
> 0anacron      logrotate        slocate.cron  tmpwatch
> local_backup  makewhatis.cron  sysstat       tripwire-check
>
> /etc/cron.hourly:
>
> /etc/cron.monthly:
> 0anacron
>
> /etc/cron.weekly:
> 0anacron  makewhatis.cron
>
> All those jobs run on their schedules, but none of them show up in crontab
> for root.
>
> > > [root at localhost jl]# chattr +i /home/ru
> > > chattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device while reading flags on /home/ru
>
> Let's see your fstab entry for /home.
>
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