From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 5 16:16: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wilsonandhorton.co.nz (fw2.wilsonandhorton.co.nz [203.99.66.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B14F37BEBC for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 16:15:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by wilsonandhorton.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA76084; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 11:15:19 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 11:15:19 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Error noticed in daily system information email Message-ID: <20000706111519.B73673@jonc.ntdns.wilsonandhorton.co.n> References: <200007050614.CAA08971@chmls06.mediaone.net> <200007052202.RAA53394@mailbox.mcs.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200007052202.RAA53394@mailbox.mcs.net>; from tforrest@mcs.net on Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 06:04:40PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 06:04:40PM -0400, Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM wrote: > Howdy - > > I've noticed in my daily email from Charlie Root the following error: > > login failures: > /var/log/messages.0*.gz > > Why, who, how, and what for does this happen? Where would I start > looking to fix it? FBSD 4.0-RELEASE It's 'cos you've got a fairly new machine and the system has yet to rotate /var/log/messages to /var/log/messages.0[.gz]. You can safely ignore it. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When all else fails, RTFM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message