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subhashni
Regular Advisor

syslog error messages

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.
unix4me
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Bill McNAMARA_1
Honored Contributor

Re: syslog error messages

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

xhost +
before you launch an xapp.

Bill
It works for me (tm)
Helen French
Honored Contributor

Re: syslog error messages

Hi,

Which OS ? There may be some patch issue !

HTh,
Shiju
Life is a promise, fulfill it!
Peter Kloetgen
Esteemed Contributor

Re: syslog error messages

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
I'm learning here as well as helping
subhashni
Regular Advisor

Re: syslog error messages

It is on HPUX 10.20.I see that in all of machines running HPUX 10.20 in my environment.
Thanks
unix4me
Craig Rants
Honored Contributor

Re: syslog error messages

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
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. " Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
Helen French
Honored Contributor

Re: syslog error messages

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
Life is a promise, fulfill it!
subhashni
Regular Advisor

Re: syslog error messages

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

Thanks
unix4me
Craig Rants
Honored Contributor

Re: syslog error messages

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
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. " Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
subhashni
Regular Advisor

Re: syslog error messages

These are syslog messages 2 days before.
unix4me
John Dykes
Occasional Advisor

Re: syslog error messages

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
Craig Rants
Honored Contributor

Re: syslog error messages

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
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. " Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
Craig Rants
Honored Contributor

Re: syslog error messages

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....
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. " Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut