message never goes away.

[McGraw, Robert P]

I have one client that sends out the /var/adm/messages files but on the server side it never seems to clear itself. 

On the display server the Critical entry was on June 8 at 13:28:00 but the current time is June 9 15:38:52. I though it would only show the error message for X amount of time.

This is what the Display server shows under "msgs".

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System logs at Wed Jun 9 15:58:08 EDT 2010

red Critical entries in /var/adm/messages
red Jun  8 13:28:00 conon.math.purdue.edu su: [ID 810491 auth.crit] 'su root' failed for admin on /dev/pts/3

Full log /var/adm/messages
<...SKIPPED...>
th.purdue.edu -- MARK --
Jun  6 19:19:14 conon.math.purdue.edu -- MARK --
Jun  6 19:39:14 conon.math.purdue.edu -- MARK --
Jun  6 19:59:13 conon.math.purdue.edu -- MARK --
Jun  6 20:19:13 conon.math.purdue.edu -- MARK --
Jun  6 20:39:13 conon.math.purdue.edu -- MARK --
Jun  6 20:59:13 conon.math.purdue.edu -- MARK --
Jun  6 21:19:13 conon.math.purdue.edu -- MARK --
Jun  6 21:39:13 conon.math.purdue.edu -- MARK --
:
:
Jun  9 13:58:53 conon.math.purdue.edu -- MARK --
Jun  9 14:18:53 conon.math.purdue.edu -- MARK --
Jun  9 14:38:53 conon.math.purdue.edu -- MARK --
Jun  9 14:58:53 conon.math.purdue.edu -- MARK --
Jun  9 15:18:53 conon.math.purdue.edu -- MARK --
Jun  9 15:38:52 conon.math.purdue.edu -- MARK --
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Any idea why the error messages do not stop displaying?

Thanks

Robert



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Robert P. McGraw, Jr.
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