Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 02:37:28 -0600 From: allen campbell <allenc@verinet.com> To: fbsdlist@federation.addy.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: last is going whacky Message-ID: <19980706023728.A4248@verinet.com> In-Reply-To: <199807060321.UAA21885@hub.freebsd.org>; from questions-digest on Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 08:21:40PM -0700 References: <199807060321.UAA21885@hub.freebsd.org>
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> From: Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@federation.addy.com> > > I'm having a problem with the display of "last", it looks like this: > > 0 5ftp2219 Mon Nov 11 07:41 still logged in > 6 5ftp2147 Mon Nov 11 00:43 still logged in > 0ftp 5ftp2219 Sun Nov 10 21:57 still logged in > 4 5ftp2195 Sun Nov 10 16:54 still logged in > 9 5ftp2202 Sun Nov 10 10:47 still logged in > 9apache 5ftp2202 Sun Nov 10 10:47 still logged in > > Doing a last on an older wtmp file works fine, as do w and who. I > > 1) rebooted > 2) deleted wtmp and rebooted > 3) created an empty wtmp and rebooted > > #3 fixed the problem temporarily, but it's back again. Any ideas? Are you using xterm? A recent version of xterm has bug which prevented sessions from being removed from wtmp. I'm not sure that this problem relates to what you're seeing; it's only an idea. See the 2.2.6 ERRATA file for details. -- Allen Campbell allenc@verinet.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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