[linux-help] Re: Entries in /var/log/messages

[Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

cron is running the daily news updates for your news server.
If you have a news server configured it will do an expire, among other 
things

bruce wrote:

>Around 4:00 AM, my /var/log/messages is updated with two lines as shown 
>below.
>
>Jun 14 04:07:57 bertha su(pam_unix)[30424]: session opened for user     
>               news by (uid=0)
>Jun 14 04:07:57 bertha su(pam_unix)[30424]: session closed for user news
>
>Time varies from about 04:02 to 04:10.
>
>Is someone getting thru my firewall, or is this a normal thing?  Any 
>ideas?
>bruce
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