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Date:      Mon, 22 Mar 1999 14:27:18 -0500 (EST)
From:      Bob K <melange@yip.org>
To:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 24-character usernames?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903221424410.283-100000@pi.yip.org>
In-Reply-To: <19990322204803.A47001@rucus.ru.ac.za>

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On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:

> 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.

Er, no.  Are there any specific instructions to do this?  Is it just a
case of cat /dev/null>/var/run/utmp and cat /dev/null>/var/log/wtmp?



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