Nalin Dahyabhai wrote:
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 05:14:27PM +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
I am getting subject error message quite often in logwatch and in
secure.log there are thousands of them. Does it mean that the permission of
directory /var is too lousy? I checked the permission bits and they are
777, so I changed them to 755 but I am still receiving the message.
Should I worry? And if so what can I do?
When you run "ls -ld /var", which user and group names are given as the
owners? Both should be "root", which is what's specified by the
"filesystem" package, which includes this directory.
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 2008-02-05 17:13 var
This sort of thing sometimes happens to a directory if another package
also claims to include it, but does so with different permissions. Run
"rpm -qf /var" to get a list of which packages claim to do so, and if
you see any package other than "filesystem" there, then you've found a
bug in that other package -- please report it.
filesystem-2.4.6-1.fc7
Regardless, you can use RPM to fix the reset permissions and ownerships
to the values specified for the "filesystem" package by running
"rpm --setperms --setugids filesystem" as root.
Gave following messages:
chown: cannot access `/mnt/cdrom': No such file or directory
chgrp: cannot access `/mnt/cdrom': No such file or directory
chown: cannot access `/mnt/floppy': No such file or directory
chgrp: cannot access `/mnt/floppy': No such file or directory
I don't believe this has anything to do with the PAM message, so I guess all
should now be OK. I'll see what logwatch says tonight.
--
Erik.
