From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 5 16:33:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from abused.com (abused.com [204.216.142.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A198B15574 for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 16:33:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gvbmail@tns.net) Received: from gvb (gvb.tns.net [204.216.245.137]) by abused.com (8.9.3/I feel abused.) with SMTP id QAA56672; Wed, 5 May 1999 16:20:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19990505161927.02af3930@abused.com> X-Sender: gvbmail@mail.tns.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 16:19:59 -0700 To: Jonathan Chen From: GVB Subject: Re: problem with w/finger/wtmp/lastlog/etc.... Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.1.19990505111218.00be8450@abused.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have done this, I tried deleting them and rebooting even. I have copied /dev/null to them, I have reset them.. I can not figure this out for the life of me! Please help! GVB At 09:04 AM 5/6/99 +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: >On Wed, 5 May 1999, GVB wrote: > >> Still can't figure out my problem on my 3.1 system upgraded from 2.2.8. w, >> finger, and who all do not work, or do not show correct information. > >The wtmp structure has changed. You'll have to zero out utmp and wtmp. > >Jonathan Chen >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Clothes do make the man. > Naked people have little or no influence on society. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message