Date: 25 May 2004 14:35:42 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Uwe Doering <gemini@geminix.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Security run question Message-ID: <44brkcbbi9.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <40B3056C.8070803@geminix.org> References: <200405250742.i4P7gDp22491@server1.web-mania.com> <40B3056C.8070803@geminix.org>
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Uwe Doering <gemini@geminix.org> writes: > Edd wrote: > > I recieved my security run today (as usual) and an error which I have > > never seen before appeared: > > hitbox.monsternet.lan kernel log messages: > > > >>tabase /etc/aliases.db: No such file or directory > > A quick locate shows that there is no such command as tabase! Any > > ideas > > what this might be? > > That should probably read "database", and the message just got clipped > for some reason. Some program apparently tried to access > '/etc/aliases.db', failed to do so and logged an error message, which > the security run scripts subsequently reported to you. No, it's more benign than that. What almost certainly happened is that the first part of a line from the *top* of the dmesg buffer got clipped off, and so this is only the *end* of an *old* log message.
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