Whenever a user uses su I get the following error messages in /var/log/messages:
I have a few physical servers and a few virtual servers all running RHEL 6.1. All of the servers were installed the same way with the same packages, but I'm only receiving these messages on the virtual servers.
I've searched google, and found a few answers, but nothing I have been able to use so far. From what I understand the fprintd daemon is used for a fingerprint reader which I have no use for on my virtual servers.
One solution I read on another site stated
Quote:
fprintd is a daemon that allows the function of libfprint over DBUS. Which is to support fingerprint scanner authentication. I am assuming that your vm does not have a fingerprint scanner so this is probably not a big deal for you. If you want the errors to quit I would remove fprintd unless you plan to use fingerprint scanning
Can someone please tell me how to remove fprintd or some other way to get these messages to stop? Thanks in advance
... and when I tried to remove the dependencies because they also were all related to the fingerprint reader they each said failed dependencies. And the last one even though it's listed as a dependency said it is not installed... that was a gdm-plugin....
This is really an annoying problem.
The man page for fprintd says
Quote:
The fprintd daemon is accessed through the D-Bus by those command-line utilities
I guess I'll have to go learn about D-Bus...
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When I tried rpm -e I gave it the specific packages to remove, and as I stated it didn't work. However when I tried
It found 2 packages to remove, and successfully removed them both, and I no longer receive errors in /var/log/messages when using su or sudo.
Problem solved! Thanks
One quick question though... If I would have simply used
rather than
would it have worked?
I am getting a lot of message as follows in /var/log/message files as follows.
messages.1:559:May 4 20:01:56 SERVER2 kernel: session_stat: sync=0 async=33 aretr=0
messages.1:560:May 4 20:02:42 SERVER2 kernel: session_stat: dev=fd:5 state=6 blksize=4096 mmapsize=262144
messages.1:561:May 4... (2 Replies)
I have been searching and reading about syslog. I would like to know how to Transfer the logs being thrown into /var/log/messages into another file example /var/log/volumelog.
tail -f /var/log/messages
dblogger: msg_to_dbrow: no logtype using missing
dblogger: msg_to_dbrow_str: val ==... (2 Replies)
How are you?
SUSE V10 and 11.
In /var/log/messages I see these lines in some servers. I'd like to know what causes these errors and how to fix them.
Thank you,
error: PAM: Authentication failure for root from XXXXXXXX
Did not receive identification string from XXXXXXX
Invalid user suse-gm... (2 Replies)
The /var/log/messages folder grows exponentially - in 3 hours it went up from 70 K to 6GB.
I have an application and it keeps writing such logs at very high speed.
Which of the following feature has to be disabled?
The entry in syslog.config is shown below
... (1 Reply)
How can view log messages between two time frame from /var/log/message or any type of log files.
when logfiles are very big and especially many messages with in few minutes, I would like to display log messages between 5 minute interval.
Could you pls give me the command? (1 Reply)
The /var/adm/messages in Solaris seem to log more system messages/errors compared to /var/log/messages in Linux.
I checked the log level in Linux and they seem OK.
Is there any other log file that contains the messages or is it just that Linux doesn't log great many things? (2 Replies)
Hi,
I found this in my logs today for vsftpd:
Nov 17 08:43:58 ftp vsftpd: Tue Nov 17 13:43:58 2009 OK LOGIN: Client "205.150.86.90"
Nov 17 08:44:49 ftp avahi-daemon: Withdrawing address record for 205.111.86.22 on eth0.
Nov 17 08:44:49 ftp avahi-daemon: Leaving mDNS multicast group on... (6 Replies)
hi sirs
can u tell the difference between /var/log/syslogs and /var/adm/messages
in my working place i am having two servers.
in one servers messages file is empty and syslog file is going on increasing..
and in another servers message file is going on increasing but syslog file is... (2 Replies)