On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 18:14 -0500, Robert Spangler wrote: > Hello, > > Looking at my logwatch report I see the following about... well lets say a lot > about one a minute. How can I stop this from happening? Where shoudl I > look? Man pages say 'userhelper' is used by pam but I still don't know how > to stop this. > > **Unmatched Entries** > userhelper[4925]: running '/usr/sbin/hddtemp --version' with root privileges > on behalf of '*********' > userhelper[4945]: running '/usr/sbin/hddtemp -q /dev/hdc /dev/hdb /dev/hda' > with root privileges on behalf of '*********' > userhelper[5004]: running '/usr/sbin/hddtemp -q /dev/hdb /dev/hda' with root > privileges on behalf of '*********' > userhelper[5006]: running '/usr/sbin/hddtemp -q /dev/hdb /dev/hda' with root > privileges on behalf of '*********' > userhelper[5018]: running '/usr/sbin/hddtemp -q /dev/hdb /dev/hda' with root > privileges on behalf of '*********' > userhelper[5038]: running '/usr/sbin/hddtemp -q /dev/hdb /dev/hda' with root > privileges on behalf of '*********' > userhelper[5041]: running '/usr/sbin/hddtemp -q /dev/hdb /dev/hda' with root > privileges on behalf of '*********' > userhelper[5044]: running '/usr/sbin/hddtemp -q /dev/hdb /dev/hda' with root > privileges on behalf of '*********' > userhelper[5047]: running '/usr/sbin/hddtemp -q /dev/hdb /dev/hda' with root > privileges on behalf of '*********' Did you start "hddtemp" manually as a non-root user? You might not get these messages if you enable hddtemp to start as a service at boot time: # chkconfig hddtemp on since that won't need userhelper to run. Paul.
