From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 18 1:34:31 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63D5237B401 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 01:34:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76BD443F1E for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 01:34:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0I9YBFH086682; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 22:34:17 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0I9YBWa086681; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 22:34:11 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 22:34:11 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: "Ernest H. Rice, III" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /dev/:0: No such file or directory 4.6.2-RELEASE Message-ID: <20030118093411.GA86646@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <200301180149.43181.ehr3@ehr3.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200301180149.43181.ehr3@ehr3.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 01:49:43AM -0500, Ernest H. Rice, III wrote: > Real stupid question I bet... > > Why when I run uptime do I get the error mentioned above? > Did I screw up? It's 'cos you're using "sessreg" (probably with kdm's Xsetup/Xreset), and FreeBSD's uptime/w code doesn't expect to see "sessreg" entries in /etc/utmp. It's arguably a bug with FreeBSD's uptime/w, as Solaris and Linux doesn't complain about sessreg entries. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the remaining 3%? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message