pam_timestamp_check and crond errors(?) in /var/log/messages

[Daniel B. Thurman]

>From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Alexander Dalloz
>Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 4:27 PM
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases
>Subject: Re: pam_timestamp_check and crond errors(?) in
>/var/log/messages
>
>
>Am Fr, den 11.11.2005 schrieb Daniel B. Thurman um 0:28:
>
>> I am seeing a lot of the following in the /var/log/message 
>file.  Seems to
>> be something involved with cron and pam?  I googled and there
>> were complaints of the same but saw no solutions or answers
>> to this issue, so anyone care to comment?
>> 
>> Nov 10 15:15:03 linux crond(pam_unix)[28956]: session closed 
>for user root
>
>For that log content you find the answer in the list archive.
>
>> Nov 10 15:15:06 linux pam_timestamp_check: pam_timestamp: 
>`/' owner GID != 0
>> Nov 10 15:15:41 linux last message repeated 7 times
>> Nov 10 15:16:46 linux last message repeated 13 times
>> Nov 10 15:17:51 linux last message repeated 13 times
>> Nov 10 15:18:36 linux last message repeated 9 times
>
>You seem to have broken something. "/" has to be owned root:root.
>
>> Dan
>
>Alexander
>
>

Yaaaaa!  Good answer!  I did break something - I had a runaway
chgrp -R and tried to repair my mistake.  Forgot about "/"!

Thanks!
Dan

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