Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 14:18:14 -0700 (MST) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: mpp@freefall.freebsd.org (Mike Pritchard), joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: a last word on last Message-ID: <199701122118.OAA22215@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199701122003.VAA01205@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <199701121901.LAA11130@freefall.freebsd.org> <199701122003.VAA01205@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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> > > > But piping the last command to anything, be it 'more' or 'head' > > > > gives totally garbled output. Fields contain garbage and seem to be > > > > shifted by one postition. > > I would suggest zeroing out wtmp and seeing what happens. > > Well, I zeroed wtmp/utmp several times in the past and the problem > came back. This may because of the various changes to the wtmp/utmp thing. Are you using an older version of xdm or xterm. If they haven't been recompiled they will create (now bogus) entries. Nate
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