The line leads with a standard xymon status header:

../bin/xymon 173.166.236.101 status nye,schoolpathways,com.crontab green Thu Feb 5 01:46:39 UTC 2015

so you've got a script reporting the crontab contents to the crontab column in Xymon. You just "got lucky" in that Xymon's standard client reporting script happened to grab the "ps -ef" list at the same time the crontab reporter was running. I'd bet your crontab reporting script has something similar to:

xymon $XYMSRV "status $MACHINE.crontab green date

cat /tmp/cron_list.log"

to report the crontab content dumped out to /tmp/cron_list.log by show_crontab.sh

Ralph Mitchell

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 9:54 PM, Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> wrote:

Ben

On 5 February 2015 at 13:03, Benjamin Smith <lists at benjamindsmith.com> wrote:

...

cat crontab files to /tmp/cron_list.log for xymon crontab.sh

0 * * * * /root/bin/std/show_crontab.sh??#XYMON?#?

What does this script (show_crontab.sh) do?

Cheers Jeremy

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