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Date:      Mon, 1 Sep 1997 22:46:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        andrew@ugh.net.au
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: EOF on /var/run/_secure from /etc/security
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970901224507.3114I-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970902100528.24948B-100000@house.key.net.au>

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On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Admin wrote:

> I was wondering what would cause this (see below). I looked at
> /etc/security and it appears that /var/run/_secure.15792 is created by
> capturing the output of dmesg. Running dmesg off the command line works.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 
> <snip>
> 
> <messages about users with uid == 0>
> 
> cmp: EOF on /var/run/_secure.15792

If this is the first time you've run /etc/security, it has to create
yesterday's snapshot in /var/somethingorather :) and will EOF on that
file.  It should clear itself up; if not, you need to find the other file
and make sure it isn't corrupted.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail    | Death to Cyberpromo




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