From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 22 10:45:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E9BE514FF2 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 10:45:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 48044 invoked by uid 1003); 22 Mar 1999 20:48:04 -0000 Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 20:48:04 +0000 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Bob K Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 24-character usernames? Message-ID: <19990322204803.A47001@rucus.ru.ac.za> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Bob K on Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 08:43:56AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon 1999-03-22 (08:43), Bob K wrote: > pi# who > nistor ttyp3 Dec 31 22:25 (snickers:ttyp6:S) > melange ttyp6 Dec 31 19:00 (ttyp4) > > Note a) the login date, and b) how user nistor is now logged in from > snickers:ttyp6:S rather than snickers.org. I've also seen at the top of > the output things such as w://ttyp4:S.0: no such file or directory (but > this only happens once in a while). Did you whack your old utmp/wtmp? The lack of doing this may cause problems like this. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message