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BajaNick 09-15-2003 09:53 PM

Strange messages in system logs
 
RH9, Gnome, using firestarter for firewall front end.

Under my system logs I have this about 100 times
Sep 14 09:52:54 localhost fam[10502]: Fatal misconfiguration: attempted to use unknown user name "nobody" for untrusted-user

Is this a problem?

BajaNick 09-15-2003 09:55 PM

also, when i go to a console and type "users" i get my username 2 times and i dont remember seeing that before.

strifel 09-15-2003 10:35 PM

hello
 
not sure about the unknown user but about seing your login id twice.....If you use the x windows enviroment and also have a terminal window open you will see yourself logged in twice... Once for the x windows(the intial signon) signon and once when you open a terminal window. This is normal. Go ahead and open an additional terminal and type user's and you will see yourself 3 times.

Later.

BajaNick 09-15-2003 10:52 PM

lol, I knew that i just forgot, thanks


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