syslog error messages

[subhashni]

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.

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

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

xhost +
before you launch an xapp.

Bill

[Helen French]

Hi,

Which OS ? There may be some patch issue !

HTh,
Shiju

[Peter Kloetgen]

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

[subhashni]

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

[Craig Rants]

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

[Helen French]

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

[subhashni]

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

Thanks

[Craig Rants]

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

[subhashni]

These are syslog messages 2 days before.

[John Dykes]

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]

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

[Craig Rants]

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....