From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 6 02:54:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA01174 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 02:54:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA01145 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 02:53:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA27828; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:54:28 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:54:28 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Tom cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: utmp problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ---------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- abial@warman.org.pl | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { fetch("http://www.freebsd.org") } Research & Academic | "Be open-minded, but don't let your brains to fall out." Network in Poland | All of the above (and more) is just my personal opinion. ---------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message