From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 17 13:17:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA17324 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 13:17:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA17258 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 13:17:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.03 #1) id 0zJjIo-0001p7-00; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 20:01:14 +0100 Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 20:01:14 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Roman Katsnelson , "q's" Subject: Re: strange error messages Message-ID: <19980917200114.B5936@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <3601543F.B4F64D3F@graphnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <3601543F.B4F64D3F@graphnet.com> User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.3i (FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Roman Katsnelson wrote: > This's has been going on for a few days now. Every once in a while, > STDERR will show this: > > *date,time* machine-name login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv2 > > The thing is, I already know this, because I'm logged in as root on > ttyv2. These messages are really annoying. Any ideas regarding their > cause? The idea is probably that you will be alerted if someone else manages to log in as root. In that case, I think you would want to know ... (wrt your subject header, what makes you think they are error messages?) If you want to disable them, read /etc/syslog.conf and syslog.conf(5) and you should be able to. -- Ben Smithurst : ben@scientia.demon.co.uk : http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ PGP: 0x99392F7D - 3D 89 87 42 CE CA 93 4C 68 32 0E D5 36 05 3D 16 http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ben/pgp-key.html (or use keyservers) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message