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Date:      Thu, 6 Jul 2000 11:15:19 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
To:        Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM <tforrest@mcs.net>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Error noticed in daily system information email
Message-ID:  <20000706111519.B73673@jonc.ntdns.wilsonandhorton.co.n>
In-Reply-To: <200007052202.RAA53394@mailbox.mcs.net>; from tforrest@mcs.net on Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 06:04:40PM -0400
References:  <200007050614.CAA08971@chmls06.mediaone.net> <200007052202.RAA53394@mailbox.mcs.net>

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On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 06:04:40PM -0400, Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM wrote:
> Howdy -
> 
> I've noticed in my daily email from Charlie Root the following error:
> 
> login failures:
> /var/log/messages.0*.gz
> 
> Why, who, how, and what for does this happen?  Where would I start
> looking to fix it?  FBSD 4.0-RELEASE

It's 'cos you've got a fairly new machine and the system has yet to
rotate /var/log/messages to /var/log/messages.0[.gz]. You can safely
ignore it.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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