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Date:      Tue, 9 Dec 1997 17:04:03 -0800 (PST)
From:      Charlie Roots <osiris2002@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        root@isis.dynip.com
Subject:   FreeBSD-3.0 Current - utmp
Message-ID:  <19971210010404.13018.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com>

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Hi everybody,
I understand that freebsd 3.0 allows usernames to be 16 instead of 8,
and this is defined in the include files, and there's a converter
utility in the tools directory of the cvsup.  I have used this utility
to convert older files, now the problem that I have a third-party
daemon called 'idled' which as its name implies automatically logs off
any idle user or process after certain time, it uses utmp files, and
is now unable to read the utmp files and giving enormous amount of
logging saying 'Error can't read utmp file' repeatedly, 

I have recompiled the daemon and changed the definition of USERNAME 16
instead of 8 in its include files, the problem persists, although it
successfully logs off any idle user. please help.

The second issue is that I am having an error saying;
'gzip : broken pipe' when I am rebuilding the WHATIS database, I tried
to manage the man pages manually, no solution, this problem also
breaks the 'make world' in its final stages, please help.

Thanks everyone.

MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU.

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