winbind keeps writing messages to log

[kickballmvp2006]

I have a few Redhat 8 servers that I have shut the winbind service off, yet I see lots of message int he /var/log/messages log in regards to winbind. The message i am seeing are

pam_winbind[25640]: write to socket failed!
pam_winbind[25640]: internal module error (retval = 3, us
er = `root'

There is a lot of these messages in the log. I'm wondering how they can be getting generated.

[Irithori]

You get the errors in /var/log/messages *because* you shut down winbind.
As pam_winbind tries to access it, but cant.

Other than that:
rh8 was released in 2002.
You might want to consider an update...