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Date:      Thu, 5 Mar 1998 23:40:20 -0800 (PST)
From:      Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: utmp problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980305233842.4473A-100000@shell.uniserve.com>
In-Reply-To: <199803060715.RAA16103@cain.gsoft.com.au>

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On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Daniel O'Connor wrote:

> I can't pinpoint _when_ it misbehaves, which is pretty useless :)
> I was just wondering if any one has seen this problem before.

  See the archives for lots of reports of this.

  You have some old software which is screwing it up.  The username length
was changed from 8 to 16 a long time ago, and unfortunately, due to the
silly way wtmp/utmp is handled, all software which touches these files
needs to be re-compiled.

Tom


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