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Date:      Mon, 13 Nov 2000 13:35:44 +0000
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Luc Morin <luc_m@videotron.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: syslogd messages
Message-ID:  <20001113133544.A85482@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <3A0F290E.A63C37F0@videotron.ca>; from luc_m@videotron.ca on Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 11:34:38PM %2B0000
References:  <3A0F290E.A63C37F0@videotron.ca>

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On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 11:34:38PM +0000, Luc Morin wrote:

> I have started seeing as lot of these messages at the console:
> 
> Nov 11 23:00:01 southpark syslogd: '/' in "/dev//dev/pty"

It looks like this message would be produced if something
had written a device name into UTMP including the leading
/dev, which shouldn't be there. You could probably figure
out which user by using "w", "who" and "strings /var/run/utmp".

	David.


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