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Weird CRON logs appearing for no reasion
Hey today I found a bunch of strange CRON log activity in my auth.log file. Anyone know what is this about? I checked and I don’t have any CRON jobs running…
May 3 06:37:30 EngageLive CRON[7350]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
May 3 06:39:01 EngageLive CRON[7588]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
May 3 06:39:01 EngageLive CRON[7588]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
May 3 06:47:01 EngageLive CRON[7601]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
May 3 06:47:02 EngageLive CRON[7601]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
May 3 07:09:01 EngageLive CRON[7631]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
May 3 07:09:01 EngageLive CRON[7631]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
May 3 07:17:01 EngageLive CRON[7644]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
May 3 07:17:01 EngageLive CRON[7644]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
May 3 07:39:01 EngageLive CRON[7647]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
May 3 07:39:01 EngageLive CRON[7647]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
May 3 08:09:01 EngageLive CRON[7660]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
May 3 08:09:01 EngageLive CRON[7660]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
May 3 08:17:01 EngageLive CRON[7672]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
May 3 08:17:01 EngageLive CRON[7672]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
May 3 08:39:01 EngageLive CRON[7675]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
May 3 08:39:01 EngageLive CRON[7675]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
May 3 09:09:01 EngageLive CRON[7687]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
May 3 09:09:01 EngageLive CRON[7687]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
May 3 09:17:01 EngageLive CRON[7699]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
May 3 09:17:01 EngageLive CRON[7699]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
May 3 09:39:01 EngageLive CRON[7702]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
May 3 09:39:01 EngageLive CRON[7702]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
May 3 10:09:01 EngageLive CRON[7715]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
May 3 10:09:02 EngageLive CRON[7715]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
May 3 10:17:01 EngageLive CRON[7727]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
May 3 10:17:01 EngageLive CRON[7727]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
May 3 10:39:01 EngageLive CRON[7730]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
May 3 10:39:01 EngageLive CRON[7730]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
May 3 11:09:01 EngageLive CRON[7742]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
May 3 11:09:01 EngageLive CRON[7742]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
May 3 11:17:01 EngageLive CRON[7754]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
May 3 11:17:01 EngageLive CRON[7754]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
May 3 11:39:01 EngageLive CRON[7758]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
May 3 11:39:01 EngageLive CRON[7758]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
May 3 12:09:01 EngageLive CRON[7770]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
May 3 12:09:01 EngageLive CRON[7770]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
May 3 12:17:01 EngageLive CRON[7782]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
May 3 12:17:01 EngageLive CRON[7782]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
May 3 12:39:01 EngageLive CRON[7785]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
May 3 12:39:01 EngageLive CRON[7785]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
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