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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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