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Subject: Re: date change and wtmp record
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> > >      I'm thinking of doing 'make world' hoping the problem goes away.
> > 
> > It won't.  Everything is in /usr/src/bin/date/.  So rebuilding this
> > must help, or you're suffering from another problem.  (Make sure you
> > don't use GNU date by accident.  cd into the src dir, and run
> > ./obj/date <new date>.)
>      Oh, well, I rebuilt and reinstalled /usr/src/bin/date/* and the
> problem stays there.  Thought there may be problem with logwtmp() and,
> so, I rebuilt and reinstalled libutil, but unsuccessful so far.
>      Now, I really don't have any idea what to look at or what to do.
> Since it's not giving me serious trouble, I can always give up on
> this, but I really hope to solve this.
> (It's very strange that no one else sees this problem.)
> 
>      If I ever find out what's wrong, I will post it here.  If anyone
> has any idea/suggestion, please let me know.

Pipe the output to "hexdump" and see if you get "7b" ('{') or "7d"
('}').  I'm still not satisfied that it isn't your font.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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