From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 15 3: 8:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail008.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail008.syd.optusnet.com.au [203.2.75.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAEE537B404 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 03:08:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from doorway.homeip.net (c17926.sunsh1.vic.optusnet.com.au [210.49.233.27]) by mail008.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g2FB8pN07625; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 22:08:51 +1100 Received: from optushome.com.au (tbird.home.lan [192.168.1.5]) by doorway.homeip.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g2FB8wK57258; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 22:08:59 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from markhannon@optushome.com.au) Message-ID: <3C91D64A.3BAA2BC2@optushome.com.au> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 22:08:58 +1100 From: Mark Hannon X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tech_info@threespace.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strange uptime response References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020314180135.01962748_threespace.com@ns.sol.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 tech_info@threespace.com wrote: > > When I execute the "uptime" command on my funky fresh FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE > system, it gives me the following response: > > bash-2.05a$ uptime > uptime: /dev/:0: No such file or directory > 5:38PM up 2:05, 0 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > bash-2.05a$ > Some terminal programs don't update /var/run/utmp correctly and (might) cause this error message. What terminal are you using? Can you try from xterm? /mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message