On 7/7/06, Scott R. Godin <scott.g@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 13:30 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > 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. bizarre.
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do you have any individual crontabs configured? (look in /var/spool/cron/ to see, usually)
actually, it seems that these errors are getting generated whenever any user driven cronjob is running on the system. so anything running as root, or normal users.
something appended into /etc/crontab that shouldn't be?
nothing other than the FC5 defaults in /etc/crontab. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org
