[SunHELP] Cron deamon

Thu Mar 1 15:36:58 CST 2001

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Hi every body this is myfirst mail to this mailing list.
I am using cron to monitor my /etc/shadow file. A C software checks the =
/etc/shadow every few hours and if the specific check fails it resotres =
the file from latest back and sends mail to the system administrator.
The problem with it is that if somhow the /etc/shadow file gets deleted =
the cron job stops altogether. I can write my own deamon but the =
question is that cron is a deamon and it should be running with root =
previlleages and it shoud be able to restore the shadow file. Why does =
every thing stop when shadow file becomes zero. I am running solaris 2.6 =
on Sun E450
jawwad

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