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Date:      Tue, 21 Apr 1998 11:45:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Terry Peluso <tpeluso@cuhsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Technical Question about w and who.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980421114410.4074K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <353C2CE9.67A3717@wmhs.org>

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On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Terry Peluso wrote:

> We have a school webserver running 3.0 Current.
> The problem is that w returns this:
> 
> wmhs# w
> w: /dev//net.inet.ip.forwarding: 0 -> 1
> : No such file or directory
> wmhs#
> 
> who returns this:
> 
> wmhs# who
> .ip.forwarding:  net.inetDec 31 16:00   (0 -> 1
> )
> root             ttyp0   Apr 20 21:39   (208.250.188.186)
> wmhs#
> 
> This problem Just popped up today. The Server was ungracefully shutdown
> by a janitor for spring break. Got it up today and found that w did the
> above. Me and another Admin fooled with it for a few hours. We
> recompiled w and it still didn't work.
> If you could please give us some troubleshooting areas to check we would
> thank you greatly.

Looks like /var/run/utmp is corrupted.  Try deleting it and rebooting.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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