From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 13 5:35:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0086A37B479 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 05:35:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 13 Nov 2000 13:35:45 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 13:35:44 +0000 From: David Malone To: Luc Morin Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslogd messages Message-ID: <20001113133544.A85482@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <3A0F290E.A63C37F0@videotron.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A0F290E.A63C37F0@videotron.ca>; from luc_m@videotron.ca on Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 11:34:38PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 11:34:38PM +0000, Luc Morin wrote: > I have started seeing as lot of these messages at the console: > > Nov 11 23:00:01 southpark syslogd: '/' in "/dev//dev/pty" It looks like this message would be produced if something had written a device name into UTMP including the leading /dev, which shouldn't be there. You could probably figure out which user by using "w", "who" and "strings /var/run/utmp". David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message