I restarted nagios and back to normal.
what especifically runs in cron
this is the only thing i see in cron
# Crontab structure
# minute The minute of the hour, 0-59
# hour The hour of the day, 0-23
# monthday The day of the month, 1-31
# month The month of the year, 1-12
# weekday The day of the week, 0-6, 0=Sunday
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# Following line Added by Unix Admin to Monitor System performance.
#0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /ubshomes/Spherion/Spherion_Monitor_Performance.sh >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
0 7 * * * /store/nagios_bck_cleanup 2>/dev/null >/dev/null
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# The following is bieng added to prevent the /var from filling up due to hhtp errors
# logged to /var/log/httpd and /tmp from filling up the inode limit with /tmp/c....ok
# and /tmp/c<a-zA-Z><a-zA-Z><a-zA-Z><a-zA-Z><a-zA-Z><a-zA-Z> files
# Mike Weber owes answers to both
15 * * * * cat /dev/null > cat /dev/null > /var/log/httpd/error_log ; cat /dev/null > /var/log/httpd/ssl_error_log ; rm -f /var/log/httpd/*_log-20*
20 * * * * rm -f /var/log/*-2014*
20 1,6,11,16,21 * * * rm -f /tmp/*.ok ; rm -f /tmp/c[0-9a-zA-Z][0-9a-zA-Z][0-9a-zA-Z][0-9a-zA-Z][0-9a-zA-Z][0-9a-zA-Z]
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