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something funny between to my cron job and logrotate

daley

something funny between to my cron job and logrotate
« on: September 08, 2005, 02:49:51 AM »
pls find the screen snapshot (ps -ef)...

root     19848  1330  0 04:02 ?        00:00:00 CROND
root     19849 19848  0 04:02 ?        00:00:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.daily
root     21155 19848  0 04:05 ?        00:00:00 bin/qmail-inject -a -- root
root     21275 19849  0 04:07 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh /etc/cron.daily/logrotate
root     21276 19849  0 04:07 ?        00:00:00 awk -v progname=/etc/cron.daily/logrotate progname {?????   print progname ":
root     21277 21275 48 04:07 ?        02:06:46 /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
root     17970  2622  0 08:18 ?        00:00:00 sshd: root@pts/1
root     18231 17970  0 08:18 pts/1    00:00:00 -bash
root     32363 21277  0 08:27 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh /tmp/logrotate.IlEB6w /var/log/snort/alert.1.gz.6.gz.5.gz.2.gz
root     32364 32363  0 08:27 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh /etc/init.d/snortd restart
root     32394 32364  0 08:27 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh /etc/init.d/snortd start
root     32406 18231  0 08:27 pts/1    00:00:00 ps -ef
root     32408 32394  0 08:27 ?        00:00:00 initlog -q -c /usr/sbin/snort -D -i ppp0 -u snort -g snort -c /etc/snort/snor
root     32409 32408  0 08:27 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/snort -D -i ppp0 -u snort -g snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf


i don't know why what this is happened to me...

the server uptime is extremely high, i dont have any idea, what i can do is to issue the kill -9 21277 logrotate process.

pls advise.