Log Entries

[Paul Howarth]

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.