loginuid and crond errors

consultant · Unread post by **consultant** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:16 am

Hi Guys,

I've googled for this one quite a bit and not really found a definitive answer. The logs on the 1and1 Plesk 8.1.1 server I use fill up with:

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crond[31581]: pam_loginuid(crond:session): set_loginuid failed opening loginuid

Looking at the frequency, it seems to tie in with the mailman list cron job that runs every five minutes.

Does anyone know what might be causing this error to appear? How to fix it? Should I be worried about it?

Cheers

Tony

breun · Unread post by **breun** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:49 am

Is this a virtual server you're running? Seems audit not being available in the kernel can be the culprit. http://kb.swsoft.com/article_133_1146_en.html solve your problem.

consultant · Unread post by **consultant** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:57 am

Hiya,

No definitely not a Virtual Server. If auditing is not compiled into the kernel I'll log a bug with 1 and 1 since I'm using their standard kernel. However, I upgraded to FC5 from their standard FC4, I suppose that the original kernel might be compiled against an audit lib that is no longer present in fc5??

Just thinking out loud

T

breun · Unread post by **breun** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:10 am

I don't know what 1and1 do to their kernels. Have you tried the stock FC5 kernel?

Unread post by **scott** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 2:00 pm

They use a very basic monolithic kernel design, installed manually, so its not rpm managed. Odds are that you're still using their kernel, rather than the FC5 version. I think it might actually be derived from debian, and its the same kernel they across all the distros they support.