Bug 487416 - sosplugin to collect the details on cron including the system and user cron jobs
Summary: sosplugin to collect the details on cron including the system and user cron jobs
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: sos
Version: 5.4
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: 5.4
Assignee: Adam Stokes
QA Contact: BaseOS QE
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-02-25 21:15 UTC by Vimal Kumar
Modified: 2012-11-02 18:31 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-09-02 07:31:45 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
crontab.py (476 bytes, application/octet-stream)
2009-02-25 21:15 UTC, Vimal Kumar
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2009:1418 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE sos bug fix and enhancement update 2009-09-02 07:29:42 UTC

Description Vimal Kumar 2009-02-25 21:15:00 UTC
Created attachment 333234 [details]
crontab.py

A sos plugin to gather the details on the system cron jobs and user specific cron jobs. This could help if there are cron jobs resetting any sort of system configurations, and one would not suspect a cron job in the scenario.


Steps to Reproduce:
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a) Create a new file named 'crontab.py' in the sos plugins directory '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/sos/plugins/'.

b) Add the following content in the file 'crontab.py' :
  
<snip>
import sos.plugintools
import os

class crontab(sos.plugintools.PluginBase):
    """ System and User's crontab details
    """
    
    def setup(self):
        self.addCopySpec("/etc/cron*")
        self.collectExtOutput("/usr/bin/crontab -l -u root", suggest_filename = "root_crontab")
        self.collectExtOutput("""for i in `ls /home/`;\
        do echo "User :" $i;/usr/bin/crontab -l -u $i;\
        echo "---------------";done""", suggest_filename = "users_crontab")
        return
</snip>

c) The above steps will create the sos plugin named 'crontab'. This plugin can be run individually using the command 'sosreport --only-plugins=crontab'. 

d) The collected details are :

 (i) The file under /etc/ starting with 'cron'.
 
 (ii) Collect the root user's crontab in the file 'sos_commands/crontab/root_crontab'.

 (iv) Collect the individual cron settings of every user under /home and save it under 'sos_commands/crontab/users_crontab'.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-02 07:31:45 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-1418.html


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