From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 13 19:10:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from VL-MS-MR003.sc1.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D32F437B479 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 19:10:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from videotron.ca ([24.201.55.172]) by VL-MS-MR003.sc1.videotron.ca (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id G3ZVHW05.59R; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 22:10:44 -0500 Message-ID: <3A10AE7C.A3AE24B5@videotron.ca> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 03:16:12 +0000 From: Luc Morin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-BETA i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Malone , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslogd messages References: <3A0F290E.A63C37F0@videotron.ca> <20001113133544.A85482@walton.maths.tcd.ie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message