From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 13 19:38:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.scl.ameslab.gov (mailhub.scl.ameslab.gov [147.155.137.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9CA214C9B for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 19:38:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov) Received: from demios.ether.scl.ameslab.gov ([147.155.137.54]) by mailhub.scl.ameslab.gov with esmtp (Exim 1.90 #1) id 10XFXb-0002kQ-00; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 21:36:39 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 21:35:55 -0500 From: Guy Helmer To: GVB Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lastlog/wtmp reporting incorrect info... In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990413165318.00a18610@abused.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, GVB wrote: > I did; > > cp /dev/null /var/log/wtmp > cp /dev/null /var/log/lastlog > > rebooted, and it still hasnt solved anything.. it looks like 200.accounting > just does a; > > touch /var/log/wtmp. > > It is still not showing me that anyong is logged in when I run w, who, or > finger. w, who, and finger all use /var/run/utmp, which is cleared each time the system is rebooted. Check the permissions on /var/run/utmp, and make sure all your terminals are listed in /etc/ttys. HTH, Guy Guy Helmer, Ph.D. Candidate, Iowa State University Dept. of Computer Science Research Assistant, Ames Laboratory --- ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science --- ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ghelmer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message