From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 4 4:52:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blues.jpj.net (blues.jpj.net [204.97.17.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 932F937BEB2 for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 04:52:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trevor@jpj.net) Received: from localhost (trevor@localhost) by blues.jpj.net (right/backatcha) with ESMTP id e44Bppx28155; Thu, 4 May 2000 07:51:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 07:51:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Trevor Johnson To: bunny Cc: freeBSD Subject: Re: Information In-Reply-To: <002501bf7e19$9012da20$3c0782cb@cyber.net.pk> 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, 23 Feb 2000, bunny wrote: > Dear Sir, > I am running FreeBSD on my machine and i deleted a file wtmp. After 3 weeks the system hangs and nothing happens. The msg on every command I type was that "wtmp" not found. > I have restored the system but I would like to know if it happens because of the wtmp file or what other possibility Do: # touch /var/log/wtmp to create an empty file. After that, login and friends will log to it. -- Trevor Johnson http://jpj.net/~trevor/gpgkey.txt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message