From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 20 14:05:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA26396 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 14:05:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA26182 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 14:04:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA29027; Wed, 20 May 1998 14:04:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 14:04:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Meir Dukhan cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird last(1) output after installing wu-ftpd In-Reply-To: <3562B70B.326D15C0@bis.co.il> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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