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Date:      Mon, 6 Jul 1998 02:37:28 -0600
From:      allen campbell <allenc@verinet.com>
To:        fbsdlist@federation.addy.com
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: last is going whacky
Message-ID:  <19980706023728.A4248@verinet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199807060321.UAA21885@hub.freebsd.org>; from questions-digest on Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 08:21:40PM -0700
References:  <199807060321.UAA21885@hub.freebsd.org>

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> From: Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@federation.addy.com>
> 
> I'm having a problem with the display of "last", it looks like this:
> 
> 0         5ftp2219                  Mon Nov 11 07:41   still logged in
> 6         5ftp2147                  Mon Nov 11 00:43   still logged in
> 0ftp      5ftp2219                  Sun Nov 10 21:57   still logged in
> 4         5ftp2195                  Sun Nov 10 16:54   still logged in
> 9         5ftp2202                  Sun Nov 10 10:47   still logged in
> 9apache   5ftp2202                  Sun Nov 10 10:47   still logged in
> 
> Doing a last on an older wtmp file works fine, as do w and who.  I
> 
>   1) rebooted
>   2) deleted wtmp and rebooted 
>   3) created an empty wtmp and rebooted
> 
> #3 fixed the problem temporarily, but it's back again.  Any ideas?

Are you using xterm?  A recent version of xterm has bug which
prevented sessions from being removed from wtmp.  I'm not sure
that this problem relates to what you're seeing; it's only an
idea.  See the 2.2.6 ERRATA file for details.

-- 
  Allen Campbell
  allenc@verinet.com

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