[ILUG] PAM error messages

From: Niall O Broin (nobroin at domain sced.esoc.esa.de)
Date: Fri 16 Apr 1999 - 12:15:48 IST


Any wisdom as to what these messages mean

Apr 11 13:09:40 madcow PAM_pwdb[25276]: flushfork: dfile(0) Bad file descriptor
Apr 11 13:09:40 madcow PAM_pwdb[25276]: of_flush: Bad file descriptor

They're cluttering up a /var/log/messages file (and doubtless the various fairly
large messages.X files which I just erased) on a machine running RH5.0 with
kernel 2.0.35. They don't seem to be doing anything harmful, apart from consuming
disk space, but I'm just curious.

And yes, I know RH5.0 had lots of problems, but this is a working machine, doing
its job very well, and it ain't being fixed until it's broke :-)

Kindest regards,

Niall O Broin

UNIX Network Administrator nobroin at domain esoc.esa.de
Ground Systems Engineering Department Ph./Fax +49 6151 90 3619/2179
European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany



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