Re[2]: security run output

[Chris]

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No -- that's entirely harmless. If you look at /var/run/dmesg.boot,
you see that it's just part of the normal kernel output during boot.
Specifically it's a list of the capabilities of your CPU.

What's happened is that the message buffer has somehow got truncated
at the beginning, and you're seeing just the end of that particular
line.  For some reason, the daily security script thinks it's
significant kernel output, but it isn't really.


Odd, because I haven't booted in awhile. This just showed up out of the blue this one 
time, and has never shown up before.

Thanks for the info, though.
Chris
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Re[2]: security run output

[Chris]

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Hmm, I found:

/etc/periodic/security/700.kernelmsg

which seems to be what generates the information I was talking about in the email. So 
I guess you were correct that it's not from /var/log/messages after all.

Having said that, I don't have any idea if there is something in that small script 
that I could change to increase the number of lines it puts into the email. It's a 
bourne shell script, it appears:

if [ -r /etc/defaults/periodic.conf ]
then
. /etc/defaults/periodic.conf
source_periodic_confs
fi

. /etc/periodic/security/security.functions

rc=0

case $daily_status_security_kernelmsg_enable in
[Yy][Ee][Ss])
dmesg 2/dev/null |
check_diff new_only dmesg - ${host} kernel log messages:
rc=$?;;
*)  rc=0;;
esac

exit $rc


And thanks for that script - I'll give it a try.

Chris




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