[CentOS] When are Logwatch errors really errors

Fri Jan 7 16:42:54 UTC 2011
Jason Pyeron <jpyeron at pdinc.us>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: S-M
> Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 11:26
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: [CentOS] When are Logwatch errors really errors
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I don't know enough about when errors are *really* errors. So 
> I google a lot to read and learn.
> 
> I have a few things in my Logwatch that I want to make sure I 
> understand
> 
> 1. smartd
> **Unmatched Entries**
> Problem creating device name scan list
> Device /dev/sda: using '-d sat' for ATA disk behind SAT layer. 
> Device /dev/sdb: using '-d sat' for ATA disk behind SAT layer. 
> Device: /dev/sdc, NO MEDIUM present; skip device
> Device: /dev/sdd, NO MEDIUM present; skip device
> Device: /dev/sde, NO MEDIUM present; skip device
> Device: /dev/sdf, NO MEDIUM present; skip device 
> 
> I googled and since I know the devices I have I can comment 
> out #DEVICESCAN -H -m root
> 
> and replace with:
> 
> /dev/sda -a -d sat -m root -M exec 
> /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner
> /dev/sdb -a -d sat -m root -M exec 
> /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner
> 
> 2. kernel
> 
> WARNING:  Kernel Errors Present
>    amd64_edac: probe of 0000:00:18.2 failed with error -22 
> ...:  1 Time(s)
> 
> I googled this and I only had 5 hits that I could not make 
> sense of. Can anyone shed some light?
> 
> 3. automount
> **Unmatched Entries**
> lookup_read_master: lookup(nisplus): couldn't locate nis+ 
> table auto.master: 1 Time(s)

This seems to be a new issue in 5 but not 4. Our nis domain controller is
running centos 4, which does not include that in the map. 

On side note, we noticed this issue while trying to get samba %N to work.

> 
> I googled and this seems to be a RHEL bug?
> 
> Can anyone confirm and explain?
> 
> -Jason
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