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Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 15:12:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Hostas Red <kong@kong.spb.ru>
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Subject: Re: Strange idle times
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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


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