Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 14:10:02 GMT From: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/96589: Periodic monthly invalid times with 32 character usernames Message-ID: <200906051410.n55EA2EW004028@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR conf/96589; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl> To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, dave@canadian.net Cc: Subject: Re: conf/96589: Periodic monthly invalid times with 32 character usernames Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 16:08:31 +0200 > [Changing MAXLOGNAME and UT_NAMESIZE to 32] My guess is: after installing the new programs, you need to truncate utmp, wtmp and lastlog. All these files consist of fixed-length records defined by utmp.h, so changing that will break them. wtmp is most affected. If/when utmp is replaced by utmpx, this should be fixed too. -- Jilles Tjoelker
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