Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 03:16:12 +0000 From: Luc Morin <luc_m@videotron.ca> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslogd messages Message-ID: <3A10AE7C.A3AE24B5@videotron.ca> References: <3A0F290E.A63C37F0@videotron.ca> <20001113133544.A85482@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
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David Malone wrote: > 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. Hi, Seems like you're on the right track: bash-2.04# strings /var/run/utmp /dev/ptyroot southpark.videot bash-2.04# As others have pointed out, this seems to be linked with kde2. I'll keep looking. Regards, Luc Morin <luc_m@videotron.ca> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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