From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 4 12: 1:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F70037B718 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 12:01:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f24K1Si84772; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:01:28 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:01:28 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Duraid Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: am i hacked??? Message-ID: <20010305090127.E83663@itouchnz.itouch> References: <3AA2628D.24EB90E7@home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AA2628D.24EB90E7@home.com>; from latif2221@home.com on Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 10:43:09AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 10:43:09AM -0500, Duraid wrote: > my w output is not accurate and my last is showing Dec 31 while it > begins on March 1. > what do you think? > > Duraid Looks like your /var/run/utmp may be corrupted. You should be able to shutdown to single user and # cp /dev/null /var/run/utmp to clear it up. The output from last depends on /var/log/wtmp, which only gets rotated if your machine is up on month-end. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Opportunities are seldom labeled To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message