[35290] in Hotline Meeting
Re: Error message appearing on w20-575-82
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Chuang)
Tue Oct 15 22:20:37 1996
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 22:20:33 -0400
From: William Chuang <wchuang@MIT.EDU>
To: starflt@mit.edu:
Cc: hotline@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: wchuang@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [35250]
You wrote:
> The following was reported by a user to OLC:
>
> In the Console Window it appears at each minute
> the following message:
> satwrite failure:inetd.
>
> No other info was given.
>
> Derrick
Actually, this is caused when someone fingers the machine; inetd calls
satwrite to write security audit data, but since fingerd is called as
"guest" on the SGIs (instead of as "root") it doesn't have permissions
to write to the audit logs -- hence the error message.
It's not necessarily users fingering the workstation; it could be the
OLC daemon on matisse if they have a question (heh :-), and it appears
some of the license servers do this too, curiously enough.
-William
