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Every few months my cron jobs are deleted, my command history is changed

Posted on January 11, 2019
yaki

By yaki

My crontab is removed every few months. It stopps and crontab -l is clear



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That’s usually not a good sign. Although I don’t have access to the server and cannot say it with certainty, this could be a sign of a compromised server. Have you noticed any oddities on the server like services stopping or high load? What about the logs in /var/log/, are these 0 byte size logs there?

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