Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 14:04:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Meir Dukhan <meir@bis.co.il> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird last(1) output after installing wu-ftpd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980520140329.28873U-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3562B70B.326D15C0@bis.co.il>
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On Wed, 20 May 1998, Meir Dukhan wrote: > 3 days ago I installed wu-ftpd on 2 FreeBSD (2.1.6 and 2.2.2) boxes, > and on a Redhat 4.1 Linux. All work fine. > > However, on the FreeBSD boxes I get a junk last(1) output (see below), > with a lot of "still login in" connections, which is totally wrong > (tested with netstat). Also, the last(1) output on the Linux box is ok. You mixed a -CURRENT binary with a -STABLE system. -CURRENT has long usernames and -STABLE does not, and since the fields in wtmp are fixed-length, it scribbled all over it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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