From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 20 12:33:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E623E153F4 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 12:33:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.3] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.024 #3) id 11Hss9-000FU8-00; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 18:54:37 +0100 Received: (from ben) by lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.024 #3) id 11Hss5-0004co-00; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 18:54:33 +0100 Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 18:54:32 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Cillian Sharkey Cc: fr@icsmedia.de, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange characters of "last" after upgrade to 3.2 Release Message-ID: <19990820185432.A17746@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <01BACE0D6FA9D21198CC00A0C94D131D0FF7C3@note.icsmedia.de> <37BD6EE5.390931D5@baker.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <37BD6EE5.390931D5@baker.ie> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cillian Sharkey wrote: >> The Problem ist not the format of the old (from 2.2.2) entries of the wtmp >> and utmp. The new ones (from 3.2) are corrupt!! >> >> Regards, >> >> Frank >> >> P.S Ive also set the size of wtmp and utmp to zero but without success > > Hmm..that must mean that the entries created by your new 3.2 binaries > must be corrupting the file (even if it was nuked and had to be re-created) > > Or perhaps, you still have some 2.x stuff floating around that is > the cause ? > > in a similar situation to this I found out ssh was the culprit..a quick > recompile of it did the trick If you haven't rebuilt X, I think that will also be using the old format. (xterm, or some part of X, logs an entry in utmp.) -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message