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Date:      Thu, 18 Feb 1999 19:05:39 -0500 (EST)
From:      Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>
To:        phoenix@calldei.com
Cc:        Erik Funkenbusch <erikf@visi.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: uptime weirdnessl
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902181903010.26929-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990218165940.B12819@holly.dyndns.org>

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On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Chris Costello wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 18, 1999, Erik Funkenbusch put this into my mailbox:
> > I'm seeing a problem with uptime in recent -currents which doesn't make any
> > sense to me.
> 
>    I've had that with 3.0-STABLE, as well.  I'm not sure why, but it kept
> saying:
> 
> uptime: /dev//chris: No such file or directory
>  ... uptime output ...
> 
>    Obviously the same problem existed in w(1).  A reboot solved the problem.
> I suppose I should look into this and produce a patch.
 A patchh is unnecessary.
I figured that all out long ago. A patchh is unnecessary.

> > 
> > odin# uptime
> > uptime: /dev//umount: /proc: not currently mounted
> > umount:: No such file or directory
> > uptime: /dev// /var: not currently mounted
> > umount: /usr: n: No such file or directory
> >  3:24PM  up 1 day, 18:17, 3 users, load averages: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
> > 
> > umount is available and it's in the path, and all the above directories
> > exists (and /proc seems to be functioning)
> > 
> > Any ideas?

Yes. Look at /var/run/wtmp. Look CAREFULLY at /dev/null.
> > 
> > 
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