From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 20 7:14:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.icsmedia.de (ns.icsmedia.de [194.77.108.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9FBB1537D for ; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 07:14:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fr@icsmedia.de) Received: (from root@localhost) by ns.icsmedia.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA26949; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 16:14:31 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lab (lab.icsmedia.de [212.101.192.250]) by ns.icsmedia.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA26946 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 16:14:31 +0200 (MET DST) From: Frank Rocholl Reply-To: To: Subject: RE: Strange characters of "last" after upgrade to 3.2 Release Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 15:14:44 +0100 Message-ID: <01BACE0D6FA9D21198CC00A0C94D131D0FF7C3@note.icsmedia.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <01BACE0D6FA9D21198CC00A0C94D131D1651F1@note.icsmedia.de> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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