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Date:      25 May 2004 14:35:42 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        Uwe Doering <gemini@geminix.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Security run question
Message-ID:  <44brkcbbi9.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <40B3056C.8070803@geminix.org>
References:  <200405250742.i4P7gDp22491@server1.web-mania.com> <40B3056C.8070803@geminix.org>

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Uwe Doering <gemini@geminix.org> writes:

> Edd wrote:
> > I recieved my security run today (as usual) and an error which I have
> > never seen before appeared:
> > hitbox.monsternet.lan kernel log messages:
> >
> >>tabase /etc/aliases.db: No such file or directory
> > A quick locate shows that there is no such command as tabase! Any
> > ideas
> > what this might be?
> 
> That should probably read "database", and the message just got clipped
> for some reason.  Some program apparently tried to access
> '/etc/aliases.db', failed to do so and logged an error message, which
> the security run scripts subsequently reported to you.

No, it's more benign than that.
What almost certainly happened is that the first part of a line from
the *top* of the dmesg buffer got clipped off, and so this is only the
*end* of an *old* log message.



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