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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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