On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 02:53:54PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 07/27/2007 09:16 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 08:50:46 -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: >> [...] >>> Hmm. My /var/log/faillog was missing, but even when I 'touch' it, the >>> behavior doesn't change. My FAILLOG_ENAB is also "yes" in >>> /etc/login.defs. >> Do you get the normal output when you run "faillog"? >> $ faillog >> Login Failures Maximum Latest On >> root 0 0 07/09/07 09:44:25 +0200 tty1 >> florian 0 0 07/27/07 09:15:42 +0200 tty1 >> [...] > > The "faillog" command doesn't give any output to me, and /var/log/faillog > is still zero bytes.
so, what mechanism writes the faillog. Maybe it panics on bad perms? mine are 0644 root:root A
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