Hi,
On Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 08:50 -0500, Howard Arons wrote:
> I have just noticed that each bootup produces a message in
> /var/log/faillog. The message is simply "tty1" followed by a hex
> string that includes an ASCII "6". I really don't know when this
> started, but it wasn't there just after my install of SuSE. Aside from
> the message, there seems to be no problem.
>
> What does it mean? Should I worry? Is there a fix?
The file keeps record of all unsuccessful login attempts. Try
(as root)
faillog -pa
This should give you a readable list of all login failures.
Ciao,
Stefan
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