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Date:      Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:52:45 +0100
From:      Chris Rees <crees@FreeBSD.org>
To:        damonray@mac.hush.com
Cc:        Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com>, Fabian Wenk <fabian@wenks.ch>, FreeBSD <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Ghosted logins in w/who
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On 10 April 2013 15:59,  <damonray@mac.hush.com> wrote:
> Got it. I'll double check to make sure everything was recompiled
> correctly. Thanks!
> Damon

While you're at it, I'll echo Ronald's concern-- make sure
/usr/include/utmp.h does NOT exist for you.

If it does, you must run make delete-old in /usr/src.

Chris

> On 4/10/2013 at 9:49 AM, "Tom Evans"  wrote:On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at
> 3:09 PM,   wrote:
>> If I wipe the utmp file all the w/who content goes away, resets if
> you
>> will. But in a matter of moments the problem reappears.. is this
>> something that needs to be submitted as a bug report do you think?
>> Thanks!
>> Damon
>>
>
> Hi Damon
>
> Fabian was explaining to you that utmp was replaced by utmpx.
>
> All programs in base that wrote to utmp now write to utmpx instead. If
> you still have programs not from base that write to utmp, you will get
> incorrect/crazy values reported - you must rebuild all tools that
> currently write to utmp so that they no longer do so.
>
> Cheers
>
> Tom
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