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On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:26:55 +0800, Edward Dekkers wrote:

> OK, the real log files tell me the job was run at 4:08.31 and 'su news' 
> was executed then, and logged out one second later.
> 
> There IS a job in cron.daily called inn-cron-expire.
> 
> This seems to be causing it.
> 
> Not being a bash expert - what does this thing do? Anybody know?

See:
 
  rpm -qf /etc/cron.daily/*

You have the "inn" package installed. INN is a Usenet news server.

> It seems to check chkconfig to see if innd is active, then performs the su.
> 
> However, innd is NOT active on my PC (I checked with chkconfig --list, 
> it's off on all runlevels), so why does it still perform the su?

Because the package has installed a daily cron job file into
/etc/cron.daily. All executable files in that directory are executed
by crond.

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