From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 28 07:56:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA17150 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 07:56:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.rwth-aachen.de (mail.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA17143 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 07:56:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de) by mail (PMDF V5.0-6 #16313) id <01IH1KCLPM0S8Y4WQK@mail>; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 16:56:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id RAA27864; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 17:08:07 +0100 (MET) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 17:08:05 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies Subject: Re: wtmp file corruption In-reply-to: <199703280335.NAA05705@spooky.eis.net.au> To: ernie@spooky.eis.net.au (Ernie Elu) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Reply-to: Christoph Kukulies Message-id: <199703281608.RAA27864@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > My wtmp logs are corrupting. > When I create a fresh wtmp log file it it fine for a while > then it becomes garbage, neither last or ac can read it. > > I am running 2.2-RELEASE however 2.2-GAMMA did it as well. You are probably running some binary of the pre-[wu]tmp changes time. Possibly an xterm, mgetty or other program that modifies the wtmp entry. > > I reformatted the drive before I installed 2.2-RELEASE. > > Any suggestions for tracking it down, it's driving me nuts. > > - Ernie. -- Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de