[X2go-dev] auth.log growing...

[Paul van der Vlis]

Mike Gabriel schreef:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> on Tue May 26 11:40:43 CEST 2009 you had this request to the x2go-dev list:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> After installing X2go I see my auth.log is growing.
>> I see this:
>> ---------
>> May 25 06:53:22 server sudo:     root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root
>> ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/x2gopgwrapper listsessionsroot server
>> May 25 06:53:22 server su[17628]: Successful su for postgres by root
>> May 25 06:53:22 server su[17628]: + ??? root:postgres
>> May 25 06:53:22 server su[17628]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened
>> for user postgres by (uid=0)
>> May 25 06:53:22 server su[17628]: pam_unix(su:session): session closed
>> for user postgres
>> May 25 06:53:23 server CRON[16311]: pam_unix(cron:session): session
>> closed for user root
>> May 25 06:53:28 server sudo:     root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root
>> ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/x2gopgwrapper listsessionsroot server
>> (...)
>> -------
>>
>> I did a "/etc/init.d/x2goserver stop" and that helps.
>> And I can still login on the X2go server!
>>
>> I see it is checking the database, but I don't understand why exactly.
>> Is it really necessary to do this every 5 seconds?
>> ---------
>>  echo "select agent_pid, session_id, display, server, status,\
>>   to_char(init_time,'DD.MM.YY*HH24:MI:SS'),cookie,client,gr_port,\
>>   sound_port,to_char(last_time,'DD.MM.YY*HH24:MI:SS'),uname,\
>>   to_char(now()-init_time,'SSSS'),fs_port  from  sessions  \
>>   where server='$2'  order by status desc;"|psql -t x2go_sessions
>>  ;;
>> -----------
>>
>> I saw you can change the sleep-time (5 seconds) in this script:
>> /usr/sbin/x2gocleansessions
>> but I am not sure this is a good idea...
>>
>> With regards.
>> Paul van der Vlis.
> 
> have you already found a solution to this??? I experience the same issue
> tried to look for a sudo hack to silence log file output but was not
> successful...

No sorry, I have not found a solution.

I think it would be easy to run x2gocleansessions as root to avoid the
auth.log mess-up, but maybe there is a better way.

Met vriendelijke groet,
Paul van der Vlis.




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