Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 21:31:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Hittinger <bugs@ns1.win.net> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: re: weird problem with login/getty/init wtmp Message-ID: <199504120131.VAA20622@ns1.win.net>
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> From: Ollivier Robert <Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net> > Subject: Weird problem with login/getty/init & utmp/wtmp > > I've a weird problem. Login-ins are correctly recorded but log-outs no. It > started around March 10th/11th : > I had this problem while I experimented with increasing UT_NAMESIZE beyond 8 in /usr/include/utmp.h. I did not reboot, and the old init was running (the old init had UT_NAMESIZE as 8). After rebooting with the recompiled init the problem went away. I'm using UT_NAMESIZE 10 now with no trouble. I needed to do this to migrate users from an older SYSV era box that had 9/10 character user names on it. Regards, Mark Hittinger bugs@win.net
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