From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 18 11:52:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA22884 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 11:52:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca (taob@[207.181.89.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA22845 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 11:52:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (taob@localhost) by tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA03564; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 14:51:17 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 14:51:17 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao To: RCB cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2-RELEASE w/who/utmp(?) weirdness? In-Reply-To: <199703181752.JAA00830@jaguar.cris.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, RCB wrote: > > This may have started happening when I began running xterms on this > machine, looks like the utmp is blown away. Hmmmm... does 2.2-RELEASE have long utmp entries? I had to relink my xterm binary when I upgraded to 3.0-current. If this is the same problem, there ought to be a large caveat emptor in the README somewhere, and an updated xterm binary in the distribution. -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@netcom.ca) "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"