Log Entries
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Sat Jan 7 11:35:36 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 18:14 -0500, Robert Spangler wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Looking at my logwatch report I see the following about... well lets say a lot
> about one a minute. How can I stop this from happening? Where shoudl I
> look? Man pages say 'userhelper' is used by pam but I still don't know how
> to stop this.
>
> **Unmatched Entries**
> userhelper[4925]: running '/usr/sbin/hddtemp --version' with root privileges
> on behalf of '*********'
> userhelper[4945]: running '/usr/sbin/hddtemp -q /dev/hdc /dev/hdb /dev/hda'
> with root privileges on behalf of '*********'
> userhelper[5004]: running '/usr/sbin/hddtemp -q /dev/hdb /dev/hda' with root
> privileges on behalf of '*********'
> userhelper[5006]: running '/usr/sbin/hddtemp -q /dev/hdb /dev/hda' with root
> privileges on behalf of '*********'
> userhelper[5018]: running '/usr/sbin/hddtemp -q /dev/hdb /dev/hda' with root
> privileges on behalf of '*********'
> userhelper[5038]: running '/usr/sbin/hddtemp -q /dev/hdb /dev/hda' with root
> privileges on behalf of '*********'
> userhelper[5041]: running '/usr/sbin/hddtemp -q /dev/hdb /dev/hda' with root
> privileges on behalf of '*********'
> userhelper[5044]: running '/usr/sbin/hddtemp -q /dev/hdb /dev/hda' with root
> privileges on behalf of '*********'
> userhelper[5047]: running '/usr/sbin/hddtemp -q /dev/hdb /dev/hda' with root
> privileges on behalf of '*********'
Did you start "hddtemp" manually as a non-root user?
You might not get these messages if you enable hddtemp to start as a
service at boot time:
# chkconfig hddtemp on
since that won't need userhelper to run.
Paul.
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