Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 18:39:08 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: VPM Support <support@vpm.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /dev/kmem improperly displaying data Message-ID: <20000207183908.E860@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20000207094139.01a0ce20@mail.vpm.com> References: <389EF209.B265A8D6@crazylogic.net> <389EFCAE.34181F8F@networkcomputerz.com> <4.2.0.58.20000207094139.01a0ce20@mail.vpm.com>
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VPM Support wrote: > Any ideas why this would be happening? > OS: 3.1-RELEASE FreeBSD > > w: /dev//f: No such file or directory > w: /dev//-st153.cwo.c8ttyp2: No such file or directory > w: /dev//o.coෝ8ttyp3: No such file or directory > w: /dev//staff: No such file or directory > w: /dev//nt-host14: No such file or directory > w: /dev//5.cwo.coƝ8ttyp8: No such file or directory > 9:47AM up 18 days, 22:06, 2 users, load averages: 0.21, 0.25, 0.21 > USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT > 8 - 31Dec69 7:47 - > staff p4 4 31Dec69 2days -csh (tcsh) Have you recently upgraded from 2.x? If so, you may have software adding utmp entries in the old format, with 8 character usernames (rather than the 16 characters in 3.x). This may cause confusion. First thing I'd try would be 'cp /dev/null /var/run/utmp', and if the problem persists, see what software it could be (at least xterm and ssh update utmp, make sure they've been rebuilt for 3.x, probably quite a few other things). -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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