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- From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: "null" entries in sulog?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.014543.383@coe.montana.edu>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 01:45:43 GMT
- Article-I.D.: coe.1992Dec28.014543.383
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- In article <BzxM2q.5Hx@unix.amherst.edu> twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
- >Every now and again, I see an entry like the following in
- >/usr/adm/sulog.
- >
- >> SU: /dev/ttyp0 Sat Dec 26 01:47:54 1992
- >
- >Does anyone know what might cause the null username field entry? On a
- >couple of occasions, this has actually appeared as "SU: (null)" (as if
- >a printf statement were passed a char pointer to NULL for the userid).
- >I find this a little worrying, especially as I'm one of the only
- >people on the system who su's in wee hours of the morning and last
- >night I was en route to Boston.
-
- Seems I have seen this when there weren't enough entries in utmp for all
- the pseudo-terminal devices.
-
- Or it was something like that. Sorry I can't be more help.
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