geoff@edm.uucp (Geoff Coleman) (02/12/91)
>I keep getting the following message mailed to me, apparently from >daemon@aix (or so he says), and I can't seem to track the problem >down: > > Thanks in advance, > > Cheryl Cato > root@tamaix.tamu.edu > Texas A&M University > It's definitely coming from a program being run by cron. Iw as quite suprised to find out that cron reads your profiles (/etc/profile and $HOME/ profile). You might want to put an "if not a tty" don't do this stuff section in your profile files. On the same subject I thought that the cron reading of .profile had been taken out of sysVr3 because of security but it is there in AIX 3.1. Also has anyone at IBM thought to fix the password type ahead and accept on AIX3.1 Geoff Coleman Unexsys Systems