From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 27 6:12:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from volodya.prime.net.ua (volodya.prime.net.ua [195.64.229.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C5A414DAE for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 06:12:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andyo@prime.net.ua) Received: from prime.net.ua (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by volodya.prime.net.ua (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA30052; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 16:11:10 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from andyo@prime.net.ua) Message-ID: <37C68E6C.47BB9024@prime.net.ua> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 16:11:10 +0300 From: "Andy V. Oleynik" Organization: M-Info X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en, ru, uk MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cillian Sharkey Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wtmp/utmp format distortion again References: <37C666E9.162AC443@prime.net.ua> <37C6655C.28948863@baker.ie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It was sshd. Fixed. Thank U. Cillian Sharkey wrote: > > Having upgraded 2.2.7-R box to 3.2-S recently I've faced > > wtmp/utmp problem causing w/last/who utils to not work > > properly. Zeroing wtmp/utmp/lastlog doesnt help. Every > > time wtmp/utmp is updated there are recorded 36-bytes > > records which should be (I beleave) 44-bytes long. Upgrade > > went w/o seriouse trouble. Is it only way to fix the situation > > to remake world? > > You shouldn't have to remake world..usually the culprits are any > 2.2.x binaries that are still being used on the system and which > write entries into wtmp/utmp..ssh has been the culprit before, > just recompile any of the old binaries again.. > > Cillian -- WBW Andy V. Oleynik (When U work in virtual office prime.net.ua's U have good chance to obtain system administrator virtual money ö%-) +380442448363 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message