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Date:      Fri, 20 Aug 1999 15:14:44 +0100
From:      Frank Rocholl <fr@icsmedia.de>
To:        <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Strange characters of "last" after upgrade to 3.2 Release
Message-ID:  <01BACE0D6FA9D21198CC00A0C94D131D0FF7C3@note.icsmedia.de>
In-Reply-To: <01BACE0D6FA9D21198CC00A0C94D131D1651F1@note.icsmedia.de>

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Hi,

>> 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

> 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 :)

The Problem ist not the format of the old (from 2.2.2) entries of the wtmp
and utmp. The new ones (from 3.2) are corrupt!!

Regards,

Frank

P.S I´ve also set the size of wtmp and utmp to zero but without success



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