From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 9 20:32:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA13028 for current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 20:32:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from mail.san.rr.com (san.rr.com [204.210.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA12984 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 20:31:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from studded@san.rr.com) Received: (from studded@localhost) by mail.san.rr.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA12373; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 20:32:56 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199712100432.UAA12373@mail.san.rr.com> From: "Studded" To: "Charlie Roots" , "freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG" Cc: "root@isis.dynip.com" Date: Tue, 09 Dec 97 20:30:47 -0800 Reply-To: "Studded" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 1.95a For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD-3.0 Current - utmp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 9 Dec 1997 17:04:03 -0800 (PST), Charlie Roots wrote: >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. FWIW, I've been running -Stable with 16 char usernames, and I appear to be getting some corruption in utmp. When I do 'last' it shows my 16 char name, but it also shows some weird high ascii characters. I deleted utmp and wtmp, and still have the same problems. Wish I could help more, but at least you're not alone. :) Doug *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 4,297 clients and still growing. :-) *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) *** Part of the DALnet IRC network ***