NSK, On Thursday 28 April 2005 09:16, NSK wrote:

Hi

What does the following means in /var/log/messages ?

su: (to nobody) root on none last message repeated 2 times last message repeated 2 times

It means root used the su command to take on the identity "nobody" (check your /etc/passwd, there is such a user) and did it 5 times in relatively short succession and did not do it from an interactive session. This is probably a cron job running. My guess would be it's your updatedb task and you've kept the default configuration, which performs the update of the "locate" command's database as the user "nobody" rather than as root.

-- NSK http://portal.wikinerds.org

Randall Schulz