hi all... i was looking on google. found some unresolved threads... the machine is a fedora 3: Linux cellphone 2.6.9-1.667 #1 Tue Nov 2 14:41:25 EST 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux looking at the messages log i saw 2 weird things there today: 1. there are entries from "Jun 26 17:xx:xx" before entries from "Jun 26 16:xx:xx"?!? and entries from "Jun 26 09:36:51" that are in between "Jun 26 16:xx:xx" stamped records?!! how is that possible?!? and 2. each hour after the first minute of it there is something like: Jun 26 15:01:01 cellphone crond(pam_unix)[19571]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) there are no cron.hourly files.. and nothing for crontab -l. so i'm not sure what that entry means... any ideas?! any clarification would be appreciated... thanks...... here is a log piece: ......................................... Jun 26 13:01:01 cellphone crond(pam_unix)[18815]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) Jun 26 13:01:01 cellphone crond(pam_unix)[18815]: session closed for user root Jun 26 13:56:05 cellphone sshd(pam_unix)[6481]: session closed for user steve Jun 26 13:56:05 cellphone su(pam_unix)[6524]: session closed for user root Jun 26 14:01:01 cellphone crond(pam_unix)[19123]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) Jun 26 14:01:01 cellphone crond(pam_unix)[19123]: session closed for user root Jun 26 15:01:01 cellphone crond(pam_unix)[19571]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) Jun 26 15:01:01 cellphone crond(pam_unix)[19571]: session closed for user root Jun 26 16:01:01 cellphone crond(pam_unix)[19981]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) Jun 26 16:01:01 cellphone crond(pam_unix)[19981]: session closed for user root Jun 26 17:01:01 cellphone crond(pam_unix)[20440]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) Jun 26 17:01:01 cellphone crond(pam_unix)[20440]: session closed for user rootJun 26 17:29:44 cellphone kernel: input: AT Raw Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 Jun 26 17:29:44 cellphone hal.hotplug[20659]: DEVPATH is not set Jun 26 17:29:44 cellphone hal.hotplug[20653]: DEVPATH is not set Jun 26 17:31:51 cellphone hal.hotplug[20723]: DEVPATH is not set Jun 26 17:31:51 cellphone hal.hotplug[20742]: DEVPATH is not set Jun 26 17:31:51 cellphone kernel: input: AT Raw Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 Jun 26 16:37:22 cellphone syslogd 1.4.1: restart. Jun 26 16:37:22 cellphone syslog: syslogd startup succeeded Jun 26 16:37:22 cellphone kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Jun 26 16:37:22 cellphone kernel: Linux version 2.6.9-1.667 (bhcompile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)) #1 Tue Nov 2 14:41:25 EST 2004 Jun 26 16:37:22 cellphone kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map: .................. Jun 26 16:37:24 cellphone rc: Starting lm_sensors: succeeded Jun 26 16:37:24 cellphone autofs: automount startup succeeded Jun 26 09:36:49 cellphone rc.sysinit: -e Jun 26 09:36:49 cellphone udevsend[750]: starting udevd daemon Jun 26 09:36:50 cellphone scsi.agent[762]: disk at /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0f.0/host1/1:0:0:0 Jun 26 09:36:51 cellphone start_udev: Starting udev: succeeded Jun 26 09:36:51 cellphone udevsend[1098]: starting udevd daemon Jun 26 09:36:57 cellphone rc.sysinit: -e Jun 26 09:36:57 cellphone ieee1394.agent[1588]: ... no drivers for IEEE1394 product 0x/0x/0x Jun 26 09:36:58 cellphone ieee1394.agent[1630]: ... no drivers for IEEE1394 product 0x/0x/0x Jun 26 09:37:03 cellphone sysctl: net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0 Jun 26 09:37:03 cellphone sysctl: net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1 Jun 26 09:37:03 cellphone sysctl: net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_source_route = 0 Jun 26 09:37:03 cellphone sysctl: kernel.sysrq = 0 Jun 26 09:37:03 cellphone sysctl: kernel.core_uses_pid = 1 Jun 26 09:37:03 cellphone rc.sysinit: Configuring kernel parameters: succeeded Jun 26 16:37:03 cellphone date: Mon Jun 26 16:37:03 PDT 2006 Jun 26 16:37:03 cellphone rc.sysinit: Setting clock (localtime): Mon Jun 26 16:37:03 PDT 2006 succeeded ................