From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 19 13:22:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 584C915698 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 13:22:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA10262; Fri, 19 Mar 1999 14:22:06 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 14:22:06 -0700 (MST) From: Brett Taylor To: Matthew Hunt Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems after upgrade/re-install In-Reply-To: <19990319131817.B75084@wopr.caltech.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 *********************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu * brett@daemonnews.org * * http://www.daemonnews.org/ * *********************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message