On 7/7/06, Scott R. Godin <scott.g(a)mhg2.com> 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.
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