Log Report

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Freitag, den 06.01.2006, 23:52 -0500 schrieb Robert Spangler:
> Hello,
> 
> Looking at my logwatch report I see the following about... well lets say a lot 
> about one a minute.  How can I stop this from happening?  Where shoudl I 
> look?  Man pages say 'userhelper' is used by pam but I still don't know how 
> to stop this.
> 
> **Unmatched Entries**
> userhelper[4925]: running '/usr/sbin/hddtemp --version' with root privileges 
> on behalf of '*********'
> userhelper[4945]: running '/usr/sbin/hddtemp -q /dev/hdc /dev/hdb /dev/hda' 
> with root privileges on behalf of '*********'
>...

To completely ignore userhelper in logwatch, add the following
to /etc/logwatch/ignore.conf

  userhelper\[.*\]: running .* with root privileges on behalf of .*



> -- 
> 
> Regards
> Robert

Christoph