From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 10 19:58:55 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA13132 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 19:58:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pobox.com (planetx-1-27.mdm.mkt.execpc.com [169.207.119.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA13118 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 19:58:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamilton@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62C7646B04; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 21:58:44 -0600 (CST) To: Tom Cc: "Wayne M. Barnes" , stable mailing list at FreeBSD Subject: Re: w In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 Feb 1999 17:57:34 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 21:58:44 -0600 From: Jon Hamilton Message-Id: <19990211035844.62C7646B04@pobox.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Tom w rote: } 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. The format of utmp has changed, and anything else that writes utmp records will also have to be rebuilt if it's not a part of the world. Likely candidates are xterm and other windowing terminal emulators, screen, etc. -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message