Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 14:14:25 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com (Zach Heilig) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/3173: utmp and wtmp programs out of sync (update). Message-ID: <19970405141425.KD11056@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199704050740.XAA25868@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Zach Heilig on Apr 4, 1997 23:40:01 -0800 References: <199704050740.XAA25868@freefall.freebsd.org>
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As Zach Heilig wrote: > is anyone listening? ;-) Yep. > > login and telnetd both think that sizeof (utmp) == 44 (I'm not sure why yet, > they appearantly use libutil, which appears to think that > sizeof (utmp) == 36... this info from observing the effect of these two > programs on utmp and wtmp, and looking at their source) Have you once downgraded your system from a 3.0-current version (with 44 bytes per utmp record) to a 2.2 vintage one? In this case, it looks as if you forgot to remove libutil.so.2.1. Downgrading is only poorly supported. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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