OS X Maintenance

[ljocampo]

OK OK Guys here it is so no one go find it

# /etc/crontab
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
HOME=/var/log
#
#minute   hour   mday   month   wday   who   command
#
#*/5   *   *   *   *   root   /usr/libexec/atrun
#
# Run daily/weekly/monthly jobs.
15   3   *   *   *   root   periodic daily
30   4   *   *   6   root   periodic weekly
30   5   1   *   *   root   periodic monthly

BTW  Mrious_be  sorry for assuming you as a "she."

[ljocampo]

BTW kps:  theree are several files named crontab that ARE invisible.  

[kps]

I'll reiterate, the files are not invisible and in reality the directories aren't either...it's just that the OS X Finder will not display the unix directories unless requested to do so.

The terminal, on the other hand, will list these directories by default and when asked will display all invisible files as well...the ones commonly refered to as "dot' files because they have a 'period' preceeding them.

There are three 'crontab' files in OS X by default, the file we're discussing, the binary and the manual page.

[Mrious_be]

Done (and proud at myself)

QUOTE

# /etc/crontab
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
HOME=/var/log
#
#minute   hour   mday   month   wday   who   command
#
#*/5   *   *   *   *   root   /usr/libexec/atrun
#
# Run daily/weekly/monthly jobs.
30   5   *   *   *   root   periodic daily
40   5   *   *   1   root   periodic weekly
50   5   1   *   *   root   periodic monthly

  kps & ljocampo

[June Drabek]

In todays  email,  I received this message. It was  from"Microsoft" <security@microsoft.com> The message  reads,  Dear Friend, use this  patch immediately. dangerous virus in the Internet now ! More than 500,000 already infected. Then there is  an icon that reads "Patch exe 9.05 k.b. " I put it in  the trash and  checked out Hoax  Busters,  and Symantec and neither of them  had a report  on this.  What do you all  think ?
 
 

[pendragon]

June, As the KelMeister noted in another thread, what you have is the Dumaru Worm.

Details at http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp...00560&affid=125

Macs can't get this worm. Unless you are running a Virtual PC program of some sort, not to worry. You could however, forward it to your PC colleagues, so indeed you did the right thing by deleting it.

Harv

[June Drabek]

Thank you HARV..I will go back and read your clickable now. Why do these idiots have to throw a scare into us like that ? I rarely open any email unless  it is a  recognizable person or organization,  but the way this came in made it sound more legitimate. brrrrrr...spookiy !!

[Mrious_be]

QUOTE(June Drabek @ Sep 16 2003, 11:54 PM)

...but the way this came in made it sound more legitimate. brrrrrr...spookiy !!

 That's one of the reason why so many people got infected
Glad we are on a mac