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Title:DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:SMURF::DENHAM
Created:Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:10068
Total number of notes:35879

9817.0. "Unknown entry in the crontab file" by HGOV08::EDMONDLEUNG () Wed May 14 1997 11:29

    Hi,
    
    We have just helped a customer to installed a new 4100 with 3 x 300Mhz
    CPUs and 512MB memory. There have 14 x rz29 disks controlled by a
    single HSZ50 RAID controller in a SW300 storageworks expansion box.
    This new system is running DUNIX V4.0B with all the patches. We have 
    only installed the NSR, LSM, Advfs utilitie and hszterm software. 
    
    After the installation, the customer observed that every 15 minutes,
    there is an error message sent to root. (I fogrot to copy down the exact
    wordings). Anyway, we have checked the crontab file and discovered that
    there was an entry in the crontab file which is mostly to generate this
    message. The entry is "0, 15, 30, 45 * * * * root /etc/.steamck". We
    don't know why this entry has been added into the crontab file even
    through we believe this entry will generate the error message. The
    system has been installed from scretch and we are wondering what layer
    products or process will add this entry into the crontab file and what
    is the purpose for this /etc/.steamck file. I could not find the same
    entry on the other 4100 ( with 1 CPU and more memory) located in our 
    office. I've also tried to use grep to search around the /usr/.smdb.
    file and could not find any hints.
    
    Does anyone know why this entry will be added into the crontab file and
    what is the purpose for this .steamck file from the new installation?
    The customer has asked the same question as above even though we prompt 
    out this entry from the crontab file and no more message has been
    received by root.
    
    Any suggestions are truly appreciated.
    
    Thanks 
    Edmond
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9817.1anyone with initials "CK" at the site?DECWET::DIPIETROWed May 14 1997 14:114
Anyone with initials "CK" at the site?

This looks like a "hack" designed to "steam" CK.
9817.2Err, look at the file?IOSG::MARSHALLThu May 15 1997 08:296
>> what is the purpose for this .steamck file from the new installation?

It isn't a file installed as part of UNIX.  Why don't you look in it and see
what it contains?

Scott
9817.3It is a ServerWorks daemon checker...ICPSRV::rchpdc::Dove[email protected]Fri May 16 1997 19:4751

Have you folks installed ServerWorks Agent for Dunix?

I find the following file (called steamck) in the Decv4.tar 
installation file for ServerWorks agents that ships with SWCC:

#! /bin/sh
#
# *****************************************************************
# *                                                               *
# *    Copyright (c) Digital Equipment Corporation, 1996          *
# *                                                               *
# *   All Rights Reserved.  Unpublished rights  reserved  under   *
# *   the copyright laws of the United States.                    *
# *                                                               *
# *   The software contained on this media  is  proprietary  to   *
# *   and  embodies  the  confidential  technology  of  Digital   *
# *   Equipment Corporation.  Possession, use,  duplication  or   *
# *   dissemination of the software and media is authorized only  *
# *   pursuant to a valid written license from Digital Equipment  *
# *   Corporation.                                                *
# *                                                               *
# *   RESTRICTED RIGHTS LEGEND   Use, duplication, or disclosure  *
# *   by the U.S. Government is subject to restrictions  as  set  *
# *   forth in Subparagraph (c)(1)(ii)  of  DFARS  252.227-7013,  *
# *   or  in  FAR 52.227-19, as applicable.                       *
# *                                                               *
# *****************************************************************
#
# DESCRIPTION:
#   A cron script which checks every 15 minutes to verify
#   that the steam daemon is running. If it is not, this
#   script will restart it.
#
#
# HISTORY
#   Rev  1.0  -  8/12/96  M. Reese    : Initial Code.
#

# get the location of the steam directory
. /etc/.STEAMDIR

# determine if the steam daemon is running; start it if is isn't
pid=`ps -ef | grep steamd | grep -v grep`
if [ "$pid" = "" ]
then
	$STEAMDIR/bin/steamd > /dev/console 2>&1 &
fi