Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 01:21:14 +0900 From: Masafumi NAKANE/=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQ2Y6LDJtSjgbKEI=?= <max@sfc.wide.ad.jp> To: terry@lambert.org Cc: max@sfc.wide.ad.jp, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: date change and wtmp record Message-ID: <199605091621.BAA00378@mail.tky007.tth.expo96.ad.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 8 May 1996 18:11:29 -0700 (MST)" References: <199605090111.SAA27469@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Subject: Re: date change and wtmp record
Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 18:11:29 -0700 (MST)
> The *only* way you could get the bogus character is if some other
> program other than the standard date command is writing it, because
> the standard date command can't write it.
>
> [ eliminate the possible, and whatever is left, however improbable,
> must be the answer ]
>
> You *must* be running some other command to get those entries.
>
> Are you *sure* you aren't running NTP or other network time setting
> commands?
You gave me a great clue!! Finally, I found what's been causing
this. It was `timed'. I have:
timedflags="-F myhostname"
in my /etc/sysconfig.
Changing the date after killing timed made proper entries in
wtmp.
Thanks to all of you who have given me suggestions.
Now, is this expected behavior?
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