Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 15:12:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Hostas Red <kong@kong.spb.ru> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange idle times Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807271511550.2941-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980725074207.344A-100000@kong.dorms.spbu.ru>
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On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Hostas Red wrote: > > > About one month or so i have a strange idle times on my -current (really > > > current - 1 hour or so :) - whenever i use 'w' or 'finger' idle time of > > > users equivalent to uptime (maybe 1 minute less). ;-( > > > > > > 'apm' disabled in kernel, nothing changed ever since. It just happend one > > > time and lasts till now. > > > > > > Anybody have such a problem? > > > > Corrupted utmp/wtmp perhaps? Something trying to use the old format? > > But why? I'm sitting on -current for more than half a year already and i'm > rebooting sometimes :). wtmp rolls daily, utmp brand new after rebooting > half an hour ago. And problem still exitst, after one more 'make world'. Perhaps you have a program using the old format, like ssh? I'm having this problem with our house router (I need to fix that). 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-current" in the body of the message
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