From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 11 18:29:37 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA18771 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 18:29:37 -0700 Received: from ns1.win.net (ns1.win.net [204.215.209.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA18765 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 18:29:35 -0700 Received: (from bugs@localhost) by ns1.win.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id VAA20622 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 21:31:13 -0400 From: Mark Hittinger Message-Id: <199504120131.VAA20622@ns1.win.net> Subject: re: weird problem with login/getty/init wtmp To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 21:31:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 686 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > From: Ollivier Robert > 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