From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 15 20:57:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA16779 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 20:57:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from insomnia.local.net (tcs6-44.netwalk.net [206.175.76.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA16774 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 20:57:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmutter@netwalk.com) Received: from localhost (jmutter@localhost) by insomnia.local.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA06447; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 23:57:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jmutter@netwalk.com) X-Authentication-Warning: insomnia.local.net: jmutter owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 23:57:04 -0500 (EST) From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jm7996@devrycols.edu To: David Kelly cc: jm7996@devrycols.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with 3.0 In-Reply-To: <199811152355.RAA02718@n4hhe.ampr.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Rotate /var/wtmp. Or wait until the first of the month and it'll be > rotated out automatically. Should only have to move the old one out of > the way. I forget if a new one will be made when needed. In any case it > doesn't hurt to create a new wtmp (with "touch"), then chown and chmod > the same as the old one. I'll try that, thanks. > > You didn't install 3.0 to clean (new) filesystems but rather installed > on top of your pre-3.0 system, right? > This is a fresh install - I originally had installed over an existing 2.X system but was unhappy with the results so I backed up the important stuff (home dirs, mail, etc..) and started from scratch.A Heh. I'm reminded of the time I told myself that I would only follow stable branches. *sigh* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message