Anyone know what this Logwatch message means?

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Fri Jun 29 18:46:09 UTC 2007


At 11:44 AM -0600 6/29/07, Reg Clemens wrote:
>I recently started getting a block of 30 or so copies of the message
>
>---
>
> **Unmatched Entries**
>    crond[12090]: pam_loginuid(crond:session): set_loginuid failed opening
>loginuid: 1 Time(s)
>    crond[12092]: pam_loginuid(crond:session): set_loginuid failed opening
>loginuid: 1 Time(s)
>    crond[12136]: pam_loginuid(crond:session): set_loginuid failed opening
>loginuid: 1 Time(s)
> ...
>
>---
>
>In my logwatch output.
>I have no idea what this is trying to tell me.
>Anyone have any ideas???
>The system has been rebooted, and the message is still there.

Googling indicates that it has something to do with audit and
CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.  (And nothing to do with SELinux. ;)  Other than that
I don't know.  If you have a /var/log/audit/audit.log there might possibly
be more info there, or it may be in /var/log/messages.
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