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Date:      Wed, 20 May 1998 14:04:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Meir Dukhan <meir@bis.co.il>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Weird last(1) output after installing wu-ftpd
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980520140329.28873U-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3562B70B.326D15C0@bis.co.il>

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On Wed, 20 May 1998, Meir Dukhan wrote:

> 3 days ago I installed wu-ftpd on 2 FreeBSD (2.1.6 and 2.2.2) boxes,
> and on a Redhat 4.1 Linux. All work fine.
> 
> However, on the FreeBSD boxes I get a junk last(1) output (see below),
> with a lot of  "still login in" connections, which is totally wrong
> (tested with netstat). Also, the last(1) output on the Linux box is ok.

You mixed a -CURRENT binary with a -STABLE system.  -CURRENT has long
usernames and -STABLE does not, and since the fields in wtmp are
fixed-length, it scribbled all over it.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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