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Date:      Wed, 10 Feb 1999 21:58:44 -0600
From:      Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com>
To:        Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
Cc:        "Wayne M. Barnes" <wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu>, stable mailing list at FreeBSD <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: w 
Message-ID:  <19990211035844.62C7646B04@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Feb 1999 17:57:34 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9902101756050.10397-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9902101756050.10397-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>, Tom w
rote:
} On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Wayne M. Barnes wrote:
} 
} > Dear Stabilizers,
} > 
} >    The w command is broken on this system.  It's the only
} 
}   Your data files are broken actually.  Do:
} 
} cp /dev/null /var/log/wtmp
} cp /dev/null /var/log/lastlog
} cp /dev/null /var/run/utmp
} 
}   and you should be ok.

The format of utmp has changed, and anything else that writes utmp records
will also have to be rebuilt if it's not a part of the world.  Likely
candidates are xterm and other windowing terminal emulators, screen, etc.

-- 
   Jon Hamilton  
   hamilton@pobox.com


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