Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 20:01:14 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com>, "q's" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: strange error messages Message-ID: <19980917200114.B5936@scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3601543F.B4F64D3F@graphnet.com> References: <3601543F.B4F64D3F@graphnet.com>
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Roman Katsnelson wrote: > This's has been going on for a few days now. Every once in a while, > STDERR will show this: > > *date,time* machine-name login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv2 > > The thing is, I already know this, because I'm logged in as root on > ttyv2. These messages are really annoying. Any ideas regarding their > cause? The idea is probably that you will be alerted if someone else manages to log in as root. In that case, I think you would want to know ... (wrt your subject header, what makes you think they are error messages?) If you want to disable them, read /etc/syslog.conf and syslog.conf(5) and you should be able to. -- Ben Smithurst : ben@scientia.demon.co.uk : http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ PGP: 0x99392F7D - 3D 89 87 42 CE CA 93 4C 68 32 0E D5 36 05 3D 16 http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ben/pgp-key.html (or use keyservers) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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