Security breach?

[Odins_Son]

I was doing some homework and I noticed my box just grinding away, even the disk drive was going. I did a ps on it and I noticed that these things were running. And I have never seen them running before on my system. Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated. Chances are its just a false alarm, but I msec running was a defintely a concern.

crond-> daemon to execute shedule tasks (I didn't have any tasks that were suppose to execute at that time)

msec-> changed the security level for the system

run-parts->runs scripts or programs in a directory



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This is the only thing out of ordinary in my syslog around the time

Mar 12 00:01:00 localhost CROND[2496]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
Mar 12 01:01:01 localhost CROND[2763]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
Mar 12 01:15:47 localhost oafd: server_is_alive: cnx[IDL:Bonobo/ConfigDatabase:1.0] = 0x80c7c98
Mar 12 02:01:00 localhost CROND[2920]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
Mar 12 03:01:00 localhost CROND[3010]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
Mar 12 04:01:01 localhost CROND[3154]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
Mar 12 04:02:01 localhost CROND[3169]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily)


Mar 12 04:24:29 localhost kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
Mar 12 04:24:29 localhost kernel: parport0: irq 7 detected
Mar 12 04:24:29 localhost kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling).

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[iDxMan]

Looks like standard `bulk` runs (ie run-part) from vixie cron.

No clue what distro, but check all the user cron tabs, then see if your version of cron uses a 'system' tab. (/etc/crontab)

-r