On 7/7/06, Scott R. Godin <scott.g(a)mhg2.com> wrote:
On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 13:30 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> 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.
bizarre.
very
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.
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