From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 21 2:30:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AFC537B405 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 02:30:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from viewp.demon.co.uk ([194.222.47.29]) by anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 166Uea-0007zV-0X for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:30:53 +0000 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by viewp.demon.co.uk (8.11.1/8.11.1) id fALAZ0s89988 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:35:01 GMT (envelope-from humbug@seaton-ross.co.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: honeybourne.viewp.co.uk: nobody set sender to humbug@seaton-ross.co.uk using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: wtmp entries from mgetty Message-ID: <1006338899.3bfb8353ae8cc@web.augustines.co.uk> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:34:59 +0000 (GMT) From: "\"Richard Chapman\"" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.4 X-Originating-IP: 213.120.90.59 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello list, I have a problem with mgetty, I am using mgetty to provide dial in access via a modem for both terminal and ppp (userland) sessions. This is all working great except for the problem that I am getting loads and loads of entries in wtmp - honeybourne# last | more dialout cuaa1 Mon Nov 19 22:20 still logged in dialout cuaa1 Mon Nov 19 22:20 still logged in dialout cuaa1 Mon Nov 19 22:19 - 22:20 (00:00) dialout cuaa1 Mon Nov 19 22:19 still logged in dialout cuaa1 Mon Nov 19 22:19 - 22:19 (00:00) dialout cuaa1 Mon Nov 19 22:19 still logged in dialout cuaa1 Mon Nov 19 22:18 - 22:19 (00:00) dialout cuaa1 Mon Nov 19 22:18 still logged in dialout cuaa1 Mon Nov 19 22:18 - 22:18 (00:00) dialout cuaa1 Mon Nov 19 22:18 still logged in dialout cuaa1 Mon Nov 19 22:17 - 22:17 (00:00) dialout cuaa1 Mon Nov 19 22:17 still logged in dialout cuaa1 Mon Nov 19 22:17 - 22:17 (00:00) dialout cuaa1 Mon Nov 19 22:16 still logged in dialout cuaa1 Mon Nov 19 22:16 - 22:16 (00:00) dialout cuaa1 Mon Nov 19 22:16 still logged in dialout cuaa1 Mon Nov 19 22:16 - 22:16 (00:00) dialout cuaa1 Mon Nov 19 22:15 still logged in dialout cuaa1 Mon Nov 19 22:15 - 22:15 (00:00) dialout cuaa1 Mon Nov 19 22:15 still logged in dialout cuaa1 Mon Nov 19 22:15 - 22:15 (00:00) honeybourne# date Mon Nov 19 22:21:04 GMT 2001 honeybourne# uname -a FreeBSD honeybourne 4.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE #1: Sun Mar 25 20:46:36 BST 2001 root@honeybourne:/usr/src/sys/compile/HONEYBOURNE i386 honeybourne# Does anyone know why I am getting so many of these entries, all these entries make my wtmp quite large and difficult to see the wood for the trees! Many thanks for your help Richard Chapman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message