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Re: Whats this mean in my log?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Mon Nov 9 16:39:20 1998
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 06:50:24 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Nitesh Dhanjani wrote:
> hello, I have the following in my /var/log/messages very frequently:
>
> could anyone tell me whats causing this?
>
> thanks!
The nobody one is from /etc/cron.daily/updatedb.cron.
I bet the news one is from /etc/cron.hourly/news or similar.
>
>
> nitesh.
>
> Nov 8 04:02:32 shrine PAM_pwdb[2018]: (su) session opened for user nobody
> by (u
> id=99)
> Nov 8 04:02:49 shrine PAM_pwdb[2018]: (su) session closed for user nobody
> Nov 8 05:01:00 shrine PAM_pwdb[2183]: (su) session opened for user news
> by (uid
> =9)
> Nov 8 05:01:00 shrine PAM_pwdb[2183]: (su) session closed for user news
> Nov 8 06:01:00 shrine PAM_pwdb[2218]: (su) session opened for user news
> by (uid
> =9)
>
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