On 7/7/06, Scott R. Godin <scott.g@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 13:13 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > For a few weeks now on my FC5-x86 system, I'm seeing the following > error appear in /var/log/secure every 5 minutes: > pam_loginuid(crond:session): set_loginuid failed opening loginuid > > Clearly its getting triggered by some cronjob, but I can't figure out > which as I'm not aware of any cronjobs that run every 5 minutes. > > Anyone have any ideas what that error really means? > mrtg installed and running unconfigured? :-)
no, its configured, and working correctly.
I see pam_loginuid mentioned in /etc/pam.d/login ... have you looked in /var/log/cron yet?
yup, and mrtg is the only job that apears every 5 minutes. the part that makes no sense is even if i comment out the mrtg cronjob, those errors continue to appear every 5 minutes. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org
