[7946] in testers
Re: syslog spew
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Sat Mar 14 14:04:32 2009
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:03:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Camilla R Fox <cfox@mit.edu>
cc: testers@mit.edu
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On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Tim Abbott wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Camilla R Fox wrote:
>
> >
> > The *:16 cron jobs seem to generate rather noisy log messages every
> > single time:
> >
> > Mar 13 07:16:47 M66-080-4.MIT.EDU CRON[12639]: pam_krb524: No krb5 cache found
> > Mar 13 07:16:47 M66-080-4.MIT.EDU CRON[12639]: pam_athena_locker: No Kerberos ticket cache; not attaching locker
> > Mar 13 07:16:47 M66-080-4.MIT.EDU CRON[12639]: pam_mktemp: No variable to set
> > Mar 13 07:16:47 M66-080-4.MIT.EDU CRON[12639]: pam_krb524: No krb5 cache found
> > Mar 13 07:16:47 M66-080-4.MIT.EDU CRON[12639]: pam_mktemp: Nothing to cleanup
>
> I'll plan to investigate these sometime this weekend.
Thanks for mentioning this syslog spam! I consider all three of these
issues to be bugs.
I've changed pam_athena_locker and pam_krb524 to only log about missing
Kerberos ticket caches when they're configured in debugging mode.
The pam_mktemp messages are actually the result of a bug in our PAM
configuration; I've committed a fix to it as well.
All of these changes are now uploaded to the -proposed repositories. I
expect them to be released to the clusters in a few days.
-Tim Abbott
