From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 9 17:04:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA25516 for current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 17:04:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from send1a.yahoomail.com (send1a.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA25498 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 17:04:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from osiris2002@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <19971210010404.13018.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com> Received: from [194.79.98.71] by send1a; Tue, 09 Dec 1997 17:04:03 PST Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 17:04:03 -0800 (PST) From: Charlie Roots Subject: FreeBSD-3.0 Current - utmp To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: root@isis.dynip.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com