/var/log/messages full of these messages. Should I be concerned?
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/var/log/messages full of these messages. Should I be concerned?
pam_timestamp_check: pam_timestamp: '/var/run/' owner UID !=0
last message repeated 7 times
last message repeated 13 times
last message repeated 13 times
last message repeated 13 times
last message repeated 13 times
last message repeated 13 times
last message repeated 13 times
vsftpd: warening: can't get client address: Bad file descriptor
and it goes on and on
These messages were all logged within 5 minutes of each other.
Distribution: OpenBSD 4.6, OS X 10.6.2, CentOS 4 & 5
Posts: 3,660
Rep:
Well, check the permissions on /var/run
$ ls -ld /var/run
see who the owner is (apparently it's not root). If it's a totally unexpected users, your system might have been compromised, or more likely a bad software install changed the owner of that directory and you just need to change it back.
Found and fixed the VSFTP error message. Apparently VSFTP.conf has to be changed to turn off TCPWrapper from YES to NO. There is some compatability issue with them turned on.
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