topic Re: syslog error messages in Operating System - HP-UX

syslog error messages

subhashni — Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:23:38 GMT

Guys,
I'm getting following error messages in my syslog.What is the reason for it and how to suppress it.Please help me.
"DTSESSION: The auth error message is Authe
ntication failed"

Thanks.

Re: syslog error messages

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:27:27 GMT

I support it has something to do with clients allowed to connect to X windows sessions.

xhost +
before you launch an xapp.

Bill

Re: syslog error messages

Helen French — Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:29:39 GMT

Hi,

Which OS ? There may be some patch issue !

HTh,
Shiju

Re: syslog error messages

Peter Kloetgen — Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:30:06 GMT

Hi,

you should try to move your ICEauthority- file in your home directory. Logout and relogin after. Does the problem still occur?

mv .ICEauthority .ICEauthority.old

Allways stay on the bright side of life!

Peter

Re: syslog error messages

subhashni — Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:32:36 GMT

It is on HPUX 10.20.I see that in all of machines running HPUX 10.20 in my environment.
Thanks

Re: syslog error messages

Craig Rants — Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:34:32 GMT

Not sure you want to suppress. That would mean auth.* would have to be removed from your /etc/syslog.conf. Take a look at the .sessions file in the users home dir, there may be more information in there about the problem. I would say that it is probably isolated to one user, not your entire system.

GL,
C

Re: syslog error messages

Helen French — Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:37:55 GMT

Hi Subhashini,

Check for the patch PHSS_25786 ( CDE runtime Dec2001 periodic patch). If you don't have it, then install it. That may solve your problem.

Also update your patch level of the system to the latest, if you didn't.

HTH,
Shiju

Re: syslog error messages

subhashni — Mon, 25 Feb 2002 17:07:54 GMT

Hi craiq Rants,
How do i know it is isolated for user or entire system.

Thanks

Re: syslog error messages

Craig Rants — Mon, 25 Feb 2002 17:18:01 GMT

First off, look to see who is connected by a dtsession:

who -T | grep dtremote | awk '{print $1}'| sort -u > /tmp/dtusers.out

Then search the .dt directory of the users for a Warning, follow the warnings as warranted.

for i in `cat /tmp/dtusers.out`
do
echo $i
grep -i Warning $i/.dt/startlog
done

That's what I would do, up to you

GL,
C

Re: syslog error messages

subhashni — Mon, 25 Feb 2002 17:22:36 GMT

These are syslog messages 2 days before.

Re: syslog error messages

John Dykes — Mon, 25 Feb 2002 17:27:09 GMT

Subhashini,

Shiju seems to have the answer. I was getting the same error you are seeing, I only saw it when logging on locally with CDE. With the CDE patch applied my last local logon was clean.

John

Re: syslog error messages

Craig Rants — Mon, 25 Feb 2002 17:28:46 GMT

Modify the script to use the last command instead of who -T, use the date from two days ago...

Also may have to look at old startup logs i.e.. startlog.old older...

C

Re: syslog error messages

Craig Rants — Mon, 25 Feb 2002 17:38:18 GMT

I haven't gone down the patch path yet because, I am assuming that the environment has not changed in a while and these messages just recently have shown up....