weird cron error in /var/log/secure

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 7/7/06, Scott R. Godin <scott.g at mhg2.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 13:13 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > For a few weeks now on my FC5-x86 system, I'm seeing the following
> > error appear in /var/log/secure every 5 minutes:
> > pam_loginuid(crond:session): set_loginuid failed opening loginuid
> >
> > Clearly its getting triggered by some cronjob, but I can't figure out
> > which as I'm not aware of any cronjobs that run every 5 minutes.
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas what that error really means?
> >
>
> mrtg installed and running unconfigured? :-)

no, its configured, and working correctly.

> I see pam_loginuid mentioned in /etc/pam.d/login ...
>
> have you looked in /var/log/cron yet?

yup, and mrtg is the only job that apears every 5 minutes.  the part
that makes no sense is even if i comment out the mrtg cronjob, those
errors continue to appear every 5 minutes.


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