From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 10 11:01:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA14802 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 11:01:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.210.193]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA14789 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 11:01:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.33] by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.59 #1) id 0w4AK4-00056r-00; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 11:01:24 -0800 Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 11:01:24 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius To: Dan Riley cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: utmp/wtmp errors? In-Reply-To: <33244CE8.ABD322C@vailsys.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Dan Riley wrote: > This thread seems to be getting no where in the questions list and being > so close to 2.2-R I think it may be relevant to bring up here. > > I will also forward a post and response from some one else who is having > a similiar problem with wtmp. > > > I seem to have run into a bit of a problem with xterms and rexec logins > > and maybe utmp... Are you aware that the maximum username length was increased from 8 to 16 characters? Are you aware that that maximum username length is hard compiled into any program that includes utmp.h? Chances are you need to rebuild some programs, and clear out utmp. Tom