From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 17 14:20:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA05319 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:20:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA05090 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:19:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA05555; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 09:17:41 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 09:17:41 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Roman Katsnelson cc: "q's" Subject: Re: strange error messages In-Reply-To: <3601543F.B4F64D3F@graphnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Roman Katsnelson wrote: > Hi, > > 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? Thanks, This is configured by default in /etc/syslog.conf. If you want to disable it, take out the "auth.debug" in the line for root and kill -HUP syslogd. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Chen | -insert-witty-quip-here- ------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message