Hundreds of crond(pam_unix) session open and closed Errors Logged to /var/log/messages.
Symptom
Hundreds of crond(pam_unix) session open and closed Errors Logged to /var/log/messages See Long Description FE is reviewing the system error logs for problems and found that in the /var/log/messages file (device level error log), hundreds of the "session" errors as shown in the example below (from this site) are being logged all day. FE asked whether this is normal or is it indicative of a problem? Aug 28 12:10:01 OGD_MR crond(pam_unix)[26426]: session closed for user root Aug 28 12:16:01 OGD_MR crond(pam_unix)[27365]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) Aug 28 12:16:01 OGD_MR crond(pam_unix)[27365]: session closed for user root Aug 28 12:19:01 OGD_MR crond(pam_unix)[28077]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) Aug 28 12:19:01 OGD_MR crond(pam_unix)[28078]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) Aug 28 12:19:01 OGD_MR crond(pam_unix)[28077]: session closed for user root Aug 28 12:19:01 OGD_MR crond(pam_unix)[28078]: session closed for user root Aug 28 12:20:01 OGD_MR crond(pam_unix)[28216]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) Aug 28 12:20:01 OGD_MR crond(pam_unix)[28216]: session closed for user root Aug 28 12:30:01 OGD_MR crond(pam_unix)[29764]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) Aug 28 12:30:01 OGD_MR crond(pam_unix)[29764]: session closed for user root Aug 28 12:31:01 OGD_MR crond(pam_unix)[29893]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) Aug 28 12:31:01 OGD_MR crond(pam_unix)[29893]: session closed for user root Aug 28 12:34:01 OGD_MR crond(pam_unix)[30605]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) Aug 28 12:34:01 OGD_MR crond(pam_unix)[30607]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) Aug 28 12:34:01 OGD_MR crond(pam_unix)[30605]: session closed for user root Aug 28 12:34:01 OGD_MR crond(pam_unix)[30607]: session closed for user root
Error message
crond(pam_unix)[26426]: session closed for user root See Long Description Error is logged to /var/log/messages; Aug 28 12:10:01 OGD_MR crond(pam_unix)[26426]: session closed for user root crond(pam_unix)[27365]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) See Long Description Error is logged to /var/log/messages: Aug 28 12:16:01 OGD_MR crond(pam_unix)[27365]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Applies to
- Models
- Excite
- Product
- Excite HDe. For Hino HDe 14.0 and HDe 15.0 Software Systems only
- Software
- HDe 14.0 For Hino Excite HDe 14.0 systems only.
- Area
- MR
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