🚀 go-pugleaf

PAM is the thingummybob which does your authentication. It looks like you've
got your news daemon started as well as your name daemon. It looks like init
is starting innd as user news doing some sort of chrooting when it kicks it
off.

Use linuxconf to disable news unless you need it ?

May I ask - why would you want to reduce the logging of these messages ?
/var/log/messages is the kernel log - lots of dead interesting stuff goes in
there (if you're as sad as me :)

Apologies if you've had your questioon answered already

J0e

"Mark Chater" <mark@chater.nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:399dc8d1.94690780@usenet.f9.net.uk...
> Hello
>
> I'm a relative 'newbie' in linux terms, having so far only set it up
> to run IP masquerading to connect a small network to the internet via
> a shared modem and run a local web server to test CGI programs before
> uploading.  As a consequence I may demonstrate a frightening amount of
> ignorance.
>
> I keep the /var/log/messages file open with less in a terminal window
> to keep an eye out for problems/attacks on the ipchains
> router/firewall.  This is usually fairly quiet but every hour I get
> two groups of messages.  One is of the form
>
> PAM_pwdb[xxxx] : su session opened for user news by uid=0
> PAM_pwdb[xxxx] : su session closed etc
>
> next group are 4 messages from named about flushing the cache of RRs
> (what?) and usage statistics.
>
> Is there any way to reduce the frequency of these messages, presumably
> by reducing the frequemcy of the operations that generate them.  I
> think I know what named is doing - DNS for my local network and
> lookups for internet requests, but I cant find how to change the time
> between "flushes".  The other thing (PAM_pwdb) I have no idea about
> and havent been able to find in my books.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Mark
> who is so fed up with recieving offers of 20million email addresses
> every day that he has added a nospam to his email address
>
>