Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 14:22:06 -0700 (MST) From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> To: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems after upgrade/re-install Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903191420590.4752-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu> In-Reply-To: <19990319131817.B75084@wopr.caltech.edu>
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Hi Matt,
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Matthew Hunt wrote:
> This is just guesswork, but since you ran pwd_mkdb after restoring
> master.passwd, I would expect the password files to be in good shape.
> My guess is that your utmp and/or wtmp are causing problems, because
> their format changed to accomodate the longer usernames in 3.0,
> and talk is probably looking at utmp to see if you're logged in,
> and getting confused because the file format is wrong.
Hmmm - this seems perfectly reasonable.
> I would copy /var/run/wtmp (if it is a custom among your people to
> keep them for recordkeeping) and then remove both utmp and wtmp, and
> "touch" them. Then log in again so that your presence is recorded in
> utmp, and see if talk works.
This didn't work - it still thinks there's no such user... crud.
Thanks,
Brett
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