Re: [webmin-l] Webmin-related cron error with no matching cron job

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 11/Nov/2011 10:29 Kris Deugau <kd...@vi...> wrote ..
> On an internal host, I've just discovered a long series of cron mails 
> with the following:
> 
> ---
> Subject: Cron <root@lilbro> /etc/webmin/cron/tempdelete.pl #Delete 
> Webmin temporary files
> 
> Failed to run /usr/libexec/webmin/cron/tempdelete.pl : No such file or 
> directory at /etc/webmin/cron/tempdelete.pl
> line 11.
> ---
> 
> I checked a couple of other systems, and /etc/webmin/cron/tempdelete.pl 
> doesn't even exist, so I deleted it.
> 
> However, I'd like to know how it was getting called by cron in spite of 
> not being referenced anywhere I could find in /etc/crontab, 
> /etc/cron.{d,hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}/, or /var/spool/crontab/.

>From that error, it sounds like the cron job is running /etc/webmin/cron/tempdelete.pl ,
which in turn tries to run /usr/libexec/webmin/cron/tempdelete.pl .. but that
doesn't exist.

Is Webmin installed on this system, and if so is it installed under
/usr/libexec/webmin ?

 - Jamie