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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Tring to locate a script Post 302854765 by Indalecio on Wednesday 18th of September 2013 10:26:51 AM
Old 09-18-2013
Linux Tring to locate a script
Hello,
We have a process on our Linux RedHat machine creating symbolic links and moving around some files from domain to domain. The issue is that the programmer has left a long time ago and nobody knows how the program is called, where it is and how the scheduling is setup. It runs every day for sure. I've been trying to find out for hours now, we have no documentation nor notes or emails left after all these years and I really need to change the script. I know it exists for a fact.

All links are created using the root user so I looked up all crontab entries for root but I couldn't find anything relevant. We do have autosys installed as well and there also I couldn't find anything helping my search. I checked the applications installed on the machine since they are running their own servers and scheduled processes (scripts can be kicked off this way) but I´m fairly convinced it´s all on the Linux side, knowing the developer was an expert shell programmer.

To make things easier, our OS support (I´m from the applicatin side although with privileged access) say that they cannot help us.

Does any of you have the slightest idea about what I could check because I´ve run out of ideas. Are all crontab entries supposed to be stored in the /var/spool/cron against the user? I checked anacron and at as well. As for autosys we have all the jobs listed and I checked that none of the scripts were calling external programs.

I'm stuck with this crap, is any of you aware of any other ways to find out that kind of information?

Thanks by advance
 

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