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Date:      Mon, 22 Mar 1999 15:10:47 -0500 (EST)
From:      Bob K <melange@yip.org>
To:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, David Hawkins <dhawk@river.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 24-character usernames?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903221508490.18207-100000@pi.yip.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903221424410.283-100000@pi.yip.org>

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On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Bob K wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> 
> > > nistor           ttyp3   Dec 31 22:25   (snickers:ttyp6:S)
> > > melange          ttyp6   Dec 31 19:00   (ttyp4)
> > > 
> > > Note a) the login date, and b) how user nistor is now logged in from
> > > snickers:ttyp6:S rather than snickers.org.  I've also seen at the top of
> > > the output things such as w://ttyp4:S.0: no such file or directory (but
> > > this only happens once in a while).
> > 
> > Did you whack your old utmp/wtmp?  The lack of doing this may cause problems
> > like this.
> 
> Er, no.  Are there any specific instructions to do this?  Is it just a
> case of cat /dev/null>/var/run/utmp and cat /dev/null>/var/log/wtmp?

Well, I gave this a try.  No dice:

 3:07PM  up 1 day,  4:08, 3 users, load averages: 0.12, 0.18, 0.11
USER             TTY      FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
melange          p0       slam3.ican.net    3:06PM     - screen
(screen-3.7.6)
melange          p1       -                31Dec69     -  (pine)
ttyp2                     -                Fri12AM 13:07 -





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