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Date:      Fri, 18 Sep 1998 09:17:41 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
To:        Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com>
Cc:        "q's" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: strange error messages
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.4.02.9809180915040.1587-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz>
In-Reply-To: <3601543F.B4F64D3F@graphnet.com>

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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.
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