On Fri 07 Jun 2002 16:27, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > Whenever I logout from an SSH2 session now, I get the > > following in my /var/log/messages: > > > > June 4 19:36:26 firegate sshd[24364]: PAM pam_putenv: > > delete non-existent entry; MAIL > > I'm not sure exactly why it's carping like that, but take a > look at your /etc/pam.d/ssh . Removing the noenv option from > the pam_mail line should make that complaint disappear from > your logs. I'm not sure I understand why, but that's how it > tests here. I've got one machine whose pam_mail line looks > like this: > > session optional pam_mail.so standard > > and another with: > > session optional pam_mail.so standard noenv > > and the latter gets complaints exactly like you describe each > time a user logs out (or more precisely, closes the ssh session). > Commenting it out (so that it the config was like the other > machine) silenced it.
Hmm, interesting. Mine reads thusly: session optional pam_mail.so standard noenv # [1] Not sure what the business on the end means, but I definitely have the `noenv' as you said. I'll take it out and see what happens the next time I login with SSH. > If you play with this, test to make sure that the MAIL environment > variable is being set in a sane way and doesn't break anything for > your users. Well, only one user... me. ;) But my SET environment does *seem* to be proper, pointing to /var/mail/jeff. Thanks, Jeff Bonner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
