Date: Thu, 11 Dec 97 02:01:14 -0800 From: "Studded" <Studded@dal.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: "Charlie Roots" <osiris2002@yahoo.com>, "freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD-3.0 Current - utmp Message-ID: <199712111003.CAA05520@mail.san.rr.com>
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On Tue, 09 Dec 1997 21:40:02 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> FWIW, I've been running -Stable with 16 char usernames, and I >> appear to be getting some corruption in utmp. When I do 'last' it shows >> my 16 char name, but it also shows some weird high ascii characters. I >> deleted utmp and wtmp, and still have the same problems. > >You sure you recompiled *everything* in -stable with 16 character >usernames? I've seen people get bitten by both sshd and xterm, >forgetting that these optional packages also write utmp entries. :) D'oh! I knew about sshd, but when I went to check on xterm a while back I couldn't find the sources right off, so I lost track. I installed X developer, but looking it over now, I can't figure out where to get the sources for xterm, or anything else in the X distribution. Pointers welcome, :) Doug *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 4,297 clients and still growing. :-) *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) *** Part of the DALnet IRC network ***
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