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On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Wayne M. Barnes wrote:

> Dear Stabilizers,
> 
>    The w command is broken on this system.  It's the only

  Your data files are broken actually.  Do:

cp /dev/null /var/log/wtmp
cp /dev/null /var/log/lastlog
cp /dev/null /var/run/utmp

  and you should be ok.


Tom


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