Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:54:28 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: utmp problem Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980306115156.22838A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980305233842.4473A-100000@shell.uniserve.com>
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On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Tom wrote:
>
> 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.
I have experienced the same problem, and it was really hard to tell what
was causing it - then after loooong time of spying around I found an old
version of xterm... :-)
Andrzej Bialecki
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