On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 14:46 -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Does the machine that that account is logged on from fire up a screen-locking screen saver after some reasonable amount of inactivity (like 20 min or so?)
No, it just sits there doing nothing forever until someone sits down in front of it.
That shouldn't be left that way. Those who use it should have their own accounts.
Hell, I know I'm paranoid, but a sysadmin, as a friend (also a sysadmin) likes to say, he's being paid to be professionally paranoid. I log off my own system, at home, every night, and every morning before I head off to work.
So something is happening on this machine.
Apparently. I have just been looking at the log from the previous weekend when it shut down before.
Here is what /var/log/messages has to say from April 2. Once again the pscd line is right at the top of the log immediately after the shutdown signal. I don't know if that's suggestive, or just a coincidence.
I think the latter, unless you've got SmartCards that you use for security. (Yes, some here have them; they haven't given me one yet, but it's coming - oh, yes, I'm a contractor with the US federal gov't.)
Apr 2 09:12:43 answeringmachine vgetty[22949]: message keep, length=00:01:02, name='', caller=none, dev=ttyACM0, pid=22949 Apr 2 09:23:20 answeringmachine vgetty[22963]: message keep, length=00:00:25, name='', caller=none, dev=ttyACM0, pid=22963 Apr 2 09:43:56 answeringmachine gdm[2880]: Master halting... Apr 2 09:43:56 answeringmachine shutdown[2880]: shutting down for system halt
Something's happening at 09:43:56. Don't suppose there's any other logs with that timestamp? <snip> mark