After upgrading pam packages yesterday, I'm seeing a similar problem, with messages in the following pattern getting logged dozens of time per day:
Sep 13 17:02:17 sideshowbarker CRON[24692]: pam_env(cron:setcred): Unable to open env file: /etc/environment: No such file or directory Sep 13 17:02:17 sideshowbarker CRON[24692]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user logcheck Sep 13 17:05:01 sideshowbarker CRON[25803]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user news by (uid=0) Sep 13 17:05:01 sideshowbarker CRON[25802]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0) Sep 13 17:05:01 sideshowbarker CRON[25804]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0) Sep 13 17:05:01 sideshowbarker CRON[25803]: pam_env(cron:setcred): Unable to open env file: /etc/environment: No such file or directory Sep 13 17:05:01 sideshowbarker CRON[25802]: pam_env(cron:setcred): Unable to open env file: /etc/environment: No such file or directory Sep 13 17:05:01 sideshowbarker CRON[25804]: pam_env(cron:setcred): Unable to open env file: /etc/environment: No such file or directory Sep 13 17:05:01 sideshowbarker CRON[25803]: pam_env(cron:setcred): Unable to open env file: /etc/environment: No such file or directory Sep 13 17:05:01 sideshowbarker CRON[25803]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user news Sep 13 17:05:01 sideshowbarker CRON[25802]: pam_env(cron:setcred): Unable to open env file: /etc/environment: No such file or directory Sep 13 17:05:01 sideshowbarker CRON[25802]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root ... I'm running testing/lenny on a server that I originally set up around 2004. I find neither an /etc/environment nor /etc/default/locale. I've not messed around manually with anything related to locale stuff; I update just by running "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" every few days. --Mike -- Michael(tm) Smith http://people.w3.org/mike/ http://sideshowbarker.net/
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