weird cron error in /var/log/secure

Scott R. Godin scott.g at mhg2.com
Fri Jul 7 20:34:56 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 13:13 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> For a few weeks now on my FC5-x86 system, I'm seeing the following
> error appear in /var/log/secure every 5 minutes:
> pam_loginuid(crond:session): set_loginuid failed opening loginuid
> 
> Clearly its getting triggered by some cronjob, but I can't figure out
> which as I'm not aware of any cronjobs that run every 5 minutes.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas what that error really means?
> 

mrtg installed and running unconfigured? :-)

I see pam_loginuid mentioned in /etc/pam.d/login ...

have you looked in /var/log/cron yet?




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