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Re: [SLE] too many pam_unix erros!!
  • From: Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:31:12 +0200
  • Message-id: <200508302031.12552.andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 20:23, Patrick B. O'Brien wrote:
> My /var/log/messages file is full of the following errors and has been
> for days. Any thoughts as to what is going on, am I getting hacked or
> attempted hacks going on here? TIA.

The crond would be a good place to start looking. What do you have set up to
run there?

btw, they're not errors, they are notifications that root has logged in and
out respectively (or, technically, that a login session has started and
ended, this doesn't have to be a real login, it can also be that a process
has launched as that user by cron)


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