[ILUG] PAM logging

[Dave Airlie]

It's getting console logged? and you have nothing in syslog.conf...

I'd advise the usual .. strace -o bigfile.txt -p <syslogpid> and sit and
wait ....

I'd also check klogd -c <x> but that is only for kernel stuff and
shouldn't matter a bloody bit ..

Dave.


On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Colm Buckley wrote:

>
> This is driving me insane...
>
> On one of my systems (only one!), PAM_unix sends a log message to the
> console every couple of minutes, to the effect that 'cron' is closing
> a session as root.
>
> To be precise, the message is:
>
> PAM_unix[<PID>]: (cron) session closed for user root
>
> I don't mind this being logged to auth.log, but having it sent to
> /dev/console is somewhat annoying.  However, I can't find a way to
> make it stop...
>
> The relevant bits of syslog.conf:
>
>     auth,authpriv.*                 /var/log/auth.log
>     *.*;auth,authpriv.none          -/var/log/syslog
>     *.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\
>             auth,authpriv.none;\
>             cron,daemon.none;\
>             mail,news.none          -/var/log/messages
>
> /etc/pam.d/cron contains:
>
>     account    required   pam_unix.so
>     auth       required   pam_unix.so nullok
>     auth       required   pam_env.so
>     session    required   pam_unix.so
>     session    required   pam_limits.so
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>            Colm
>
>

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David Airlie, Software Engineer
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