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Date:      Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:01:28 +1300
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
To:        Duraid <latif2221@home.com>
Cc:        "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: am i hacked???
Message-ID:  <20010305090127.E83663@itouchnz.itouch>
In-Reply-To: <3AA2628D.24EB90E7@home.com>; from latif2221@home.com on Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 10:43:09AM -0500
References:  <3AA2628D.24EB90E7@home.com>

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On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 10:43:09AM -0500, Duraid wrote:
> my w output is not accurate and my last is showing Dec 31 while it
> begins on March 1.
> what do you think?
> 
> Duraid

Looks like your /var/run/utmp may be corrupted. You should be able to
shutdown to single user and

	# cp /dev/null /var/run/utmp

to clear it up. The output from last depends on /var/log/wtmp, which
only gets rotated if your machine is up on month-end.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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