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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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