Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:48:53 +0100 From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> To: damonray@mac.hush.com Cc: Fabian Wenk <fabian@wenks.ch>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ghosted logins in w/who Message-ID: <CAFHbX1%2B8QAp7OXPK%2BhJP5JrB0WWvjhqMXfS-%2B01M%2B0A_L4S25g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130410140953.31C3D10E2D3@smtp.hushmail.com> References: <20130409015643.0817D10E2C8@smtp.hushmail.com> <20130409022837.GA95155@icarus.home.lan> <E1UPVSY-0005Hj-Jm@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> <516428D2.9020701@wenks.ch> <20130410140953.31C3D10E2D3@smtp.hushmail.com>
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On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 3:09 PM, <damonray@mac.hush.com> wrote: > If I wipe the utmp file all the w/who content goes away, resets if you > will. But in a matter of moments the problem reappears.. is this > something that needs to be submitted as a bug report do you think? > Thanks! > Damon > Hi Damon Fabian was explaining to you that utmp was replaced by utmpx. All programs in base that wrote to utmp now write to utmpx instead. If you still have programs not from base that write to utmp, you will get incorrect/crazy values reported - you must rebuild all tools that currently write to utmp so that they no longer do so. Cheers Tom
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