(I replied to Julia instead of the list...sorry...)
At 03:20 PM 6/28/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>I've always got one more thing to report...
>
>on my one box when I do a w comman I see a root login on pts/0 and it says
>that person is running /bin/cat...
>
>a ps xa | grep cat shows no such process and pts/0 would be a remote login
>which shouldn't happen as root (unless I enabled root logins with ssh
>which I haven't)
I'm sure I will be corrected if I am wrong, but I noticed the same
behavior, and deduced that it is the system console, which displays a
running list of all messages from /var/log/messages (or it might be syslog,
I haven't looked that closely).
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Craig Sprout
Network Administrator
Crown Parts and Machine, Inc.
http://www.crownpartsandmachine.com
