Re: [ALUG] What's running at midnight?

On 23/02/2021 18:15, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:

I can think of various ways. 1) A program (daemon) can constantly run, and may update at a specific time. 2) crontab 3) "at"  perhaps. Any others?

Any comments or advice appreciated.

Hi, I had something similar, and as a quick'n'dirty I started a tmux and ran something like: while true ; do ps auxwww > $(date +"ps-%Y%m%d%H%M%S.log") ; sleep 30 ; done This led me to finding a regular spamhammer causing >200 spamassassin processes to fork... -- Red to red, black to black, switch it on, but stand well back.