Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 22:34:11 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: "Ernest H. Rice, III" <ehr3@ehr3.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /dev/:0: No such file or directory 4.6.2-RELEASE Message-ID: <20030118093411.GA86646@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <200301180149.43181.ehr3@ehr3.com> References: <200301180149.43181.ehr3@ehr3.com>
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On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 01:49:43AM -0500, Ernest H. Rice, III wrote: > Real stupid question I bet... > > Why when I run uptime do I get the error mentioned above? > Did I screw up? It's 'cos you're using "sessreg" (probably with kdm's Xsetup/Xreset), and FreeBSD's uptime/w code doesn't expect to see "sessreg" entries in /etc/utmp. It's arguably a bug with FreeBSD's uptime/w, as Solaris and Linux doesn't complain about sessreg entries. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the remaining 3%? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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