From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 5 23:18:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA25110 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 23:18:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA25035 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 23:18:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA16103 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:45:34 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199803060715.RAA16103@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: utmp problem Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 17:45:34 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id XAA25065 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I think my utmp file is being corrupted.. Sometimes when I run w or who, they work OK, but other times it gives corrupt output - eg [holly 5:49pm] ~> w 5:49PM up 4 days, 21:21, 1 user, load averages: 0.14, 0.63, 0.92 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT «¢þ4 - 01Jan70 15:49 - I can't pinpoint _when_ it misbehaves, which is pretty useless :) I was just wondering if any one has seen this problem before. --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message