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Date:      Mon, 4 May 1998 19:55:32 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        bartol@salk.edu (Tom Bartol)
Cc:        dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, bob@luke.pmr.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: w: /dev//bob: No such file or directory  ???
Message-ID:  <199805050055.TAA00300@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980504154047.28592A-100000@cole.salk.edu> from Tom Bartol at "May 4, 98 03:42:57 pm"

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> 
> On Mon, 4 May 1998, John S. Dyson wrote:
> 
> > Tom Bartol said:
> > > 
> > > Im running -current as of April 24 and I see this problem as well.
> > > Perhaps John's recent VM fixes will correct the problem (but it looks like
> > > your kernel is recent enough to include these fixes already).  I may
> > > back-up my -current to April 20 as has been suggested by some to see if
> > > that fixes the problem.
> > > 
> > Have you rebuilt the libkvm and w commands???
> > 
> > -- 
> > John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
> > dyson@freebsd.org     | it just makes you look stupid,
> > jdyson@nc.com         | and it irritates the pig.
> > 
> 
> Yes, these are all in sync with my 980424 -current system.  Someone just 
> suggested that it might be due to running old shells.  My tcsh is:
> Aug 15  1996 /usr/local/bin/tcsh
> 
> I suppose that could be it.  I'll rebuild tcsh and see what develops...
> 
Oh yeah, anything that messes with the utmp file could cause that kind
of problem (if things are relatively out of date.)  I have gotten to the
point that sometimes I think that every bug is mine :-).

John

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