Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 23:40:20 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: utmp problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980305233842.4473A-100000@shell.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <199803060715.RAA16103@cain.gsoft.com.au>
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On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > I can't pinpoint _when_ it misbehaves, which is pretty useless :) > I was just wondering if any one has seen this problem before. See the archives for lots of reports of this. You have some old software which is screwing it up. The username length was changed from 8 to 16 a long time ago, and unfortunately, due to the silly way wtmp/utmp is handled, all software which touches these files needs to be re-compiled. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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