Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:25:08 +0100 From: Cillian Sharkey <cillian@baker.ie> To: Frank Rocholl <fr@icsmedia.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange characters of "last" after upgrade to 3.2 Release Message-ID: <37BD5734.B3419BAE@baker.ie> References: <01BACE0D6FA9D21198CC00A0C94D131D0FF7C2@note.icsmedia.de>
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> I´ve upgrade last night my FreeBSD-2.2.2 to FreeBSD-2.2.8 and > finally to > FreeBSD-3.2 via the binary method. > Now there is a strange behaviour of the "w" and "last" commands. > For example the output of last looks like: > vx3.tel^z(^}7ttyp ppp-1-5. 4 Sat Jul 23 16:58 > still logged in > ppp-1-5.cvx3.tel ftp A'^}7ftp80296 Thu Jan 1 01:00 > still logged in > frro ttyp3 media.deu"^}7ftp8 Fri Oct 30 04:27 > still logged in > ttyp3 a.deI ^}7 Fri Aug 20 11:30 > still logged in read the following file: /usr/src/tools/3.0-upgrade/README basically the format of the utmp element in the wtmp file changed in 3.0+ there's a c program there that will convert your old ones (or you could just nuke them :) Regards, Cillian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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