Re: How to stop the deluge of entries in /var/log files?

2010-02-05 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 11:56 -0700, j...@actionline.com wrote: > Joe last wrote: > >> Thanks Craig. > >> Re the permissions item, I neglected to say that the reported files and > >> directories are already set with the correct permissions, but those > >> claims of "wrong permissions" keep on coming

Re: How to stop the deluge of entries in /var/log files?

2010-02-05 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 11:56 -0700, j...@actionline.com wrote: > Joe last wrote: > >> Thanks Craig. > >> Re the permissions item, I neglected to say that the reported files and > >> directories are already set with the correct permissions, but those > >> claims of "wrong permissions" keep on coming

Re: How to stop the deluge of entries in /var/log files?

2010-02-05 Thread joe
Joe last wrote: >> Thanks Craig. >> Re the permissions item, I neglected to say that the reported files and >> directories are already set with the correct permissions, but those >> claims of "wrong permissions" keep on coming anyway. Then Craig wrote: > that defies my understanding of things so

Re: How to stop the deluge of entries in /var/log files?

2010-02-05 Thread joe
>>> On Thu, 2010-02-04 joe wrote: >>> Feb 4 04:11:01 crond: root /usr/share/msec/promisc_check.sh >>> [this is running every minute] I found what was causing this "problem." It is a security utility called "msec" that runs every minute apparently sniffing for "promisc(uity)" and any other unseemly

Re: How to stop the deluge of entries in /var/log files?

2010-02-05 Thread Matt Graham
>> On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 18:15 -0700, j...@actionline.com wrote: >> Feb 4 04:11:01 crond: root /usr/share/msec/promisc_check.sh >> Feb 4 04:12:01 crond: root /usr/share/msec/promisc_check.sh [this is running every minute] Bad cron job somewhere, unless the script is totally breaking all syslog con

Re: How to stop the deluge of entries in /var/log files?

2010-02-04 Thread Eric Cope
I know on FreeBSD, system crons are located on /var, but user crons are located in the user directory. Is Linux the same way? Are Cron files located in multiple areas? Are you checking all cron files? Thanks, Eric On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 18:15 -

Re: How to stop the deluge of entries in /var/log files?

2010-02-04 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 18:15 -0700, j...@actionline.com wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 17:31 -0700, j...@actionline.com wrote: > >> While fixing a 'syslog' problem on one of my systems, I just discovered > >> that on one of my other systems, there has been a deluge of identical > >> (redundant) en

Re: How to stop the deluge of entries in /var/log files?

2010-02-04 Thread joe
> On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 17:31 -0700, j...@actionline.com wrote: >> While fixing a 'syslog' problem on one of my systems, I just discovered >> that on one of my other systems, there has been a deluge of identical >> (redundant) entries (for two different topics), each going into several >> different

Re: How to stop the deluge of entries in /var/log files?

2010-02-04 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 17:31 -0700, j...@actionline.com wrote: > While fixing a 'syslog' problem on one of my systems, I just discovered > that on one of my other systems, there has been a deluge of identical > (redundant) entries (for two different topics), each going into several > different files

How to stop the deluge of entries in /var/log files?

2010-02-04 Thread joe
While fixing a 'syslog' problem on one of my systems, I just discovered that on one of my other systems, there has been a deluge of identical (redundant) entries (for two different topics), each going into several different files in /var/log and I can't figure out how or find where to put a stop to