From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Apr 6 00:38:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA01975 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 00:38:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA01953 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 00:38:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA00445; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 10:36:56 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA08799; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 14:14:26 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970405141425.KD11056@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 14:14:25 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com (Zach Heilig) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/3173: utmp and wtmp programs out of sync (update). References: <199704050740.XAA25868@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199704050740.XAA25868@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Zach Heilig on Apr 4, 1997 23:40:01 -0800 Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Zach Heilig wrote: > is anyone listening? ;-) Yep. > > login and telnetd both think that sizeof (utmp) == 44 (I'm not sure why yet, > they appearantly use libutil, which appears to think that > sizeof (utmp) == 36... this info from observing the effect of these two > programs on utmp and wtmp, and looking at their source) Have you once downgraded your system from a 3.0-current version (with 44 bytes per utmp record) to a 2.2 vintage one? In this case, it looks as if you forgot to remove libutil.so.2.1. Downgrading is only poorly supported. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)