[grsec] Slew of chdir messages - why?

[John Logsdon]

I am running grsec2.0.2 CVS'ed on 21st Dec at about 1400 GMT.  The box is
Fedora Core 2. I get a continuous slew of messages in /var/log/messages:

Dec 29 20:48:00 unix kernel: grsec: chdir to /root by
/usr/sbin/crond[crond:19046] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0, parent
/usr/sbin/crond[crond:3401] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0

There have been about 18000 such messages since Sunday at 4pm, all to do
with chdir.   grsec has been disabled and has never been enabled in this
kernel.  The only thing that has been done is to re-process some older
learning logs.

Could this be due to the pax update at 12:28 that I missed?  Or is it
something else?

Happy New Year to all

TIA

John

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