[BlueOnyx:03741] Re: mbox ownership problem

Michael Stauber mstauber at blueonyx.it
Mon Mar 1 15:48:56 -05 2010


Hi Christoph,

> Yes, create a User, make sure no mail comes in until the other day at
> 06:00 and then the mbox file suddenly appears empty owned by root. I
> haven't found yet what possible cron job might trigger it. After doing a
> #find /home -name mbox -user root -exec ls -la \{} \;
> I found dozens of them on almost all my BOs. They all have a datetime of
> 06:0[01234] on the following day of the account creation.
> Does anybody have a clue which cronjob possibly does this ?

What the hell? Yeah, you're right. I checked this on a couple of boxes and 
indeed found some root owned mbox files in directories of users which never 
had received emails.

I'm looking into this now.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber




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