From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 31 23:38:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84FA51513A for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 23:38:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA20720; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 00:01:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 00:01:45 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Vadim Vitebsky Cc: FreeBSD TechSupport Subject: Re: QUESTION about /VAR/RUN/UTMP In-Reply-To: <01be62ec$1ccdb600$0301a8c0@vadim.vhi.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Vadim Vitebsky wrote: > Good day! > > I have FreeBSD 3.1-Release installed. This is great system. But I have one > problem. > > Not far, when I tried WHO command system write to me: > > who: /var/run/utmp - device not configured. > > Also, when system boots up I can see this message: > > rm /var/run/utmp - utmp: Operation not permitted. > > Also I cannot use TALK command, because error message being assigned. > > My file /var/log/messages are full of this strings: > > Nov 1 06:18:53 vhi comsat[11016]: open: /var/run/utmp: Permission denied. > Nov 1 06:18:53 vhi inetd [167]: /usr/libexec/comsat[11016]: Exit status > 0x100. > > I tried to use FSCK, but fsck write that all ok! > I cannot delete this file manually, using rm command or using MC-4.5.1, > because system writes: "/var/run/utmp" - Cannot delete. Operation not > permitted (1). > > > What happened with my system? And what I can do? What is your output for: ls -lo /var/run/utmp and ls -ldo /var/run thanks, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message