From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 18 18:21:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31C3111893 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 18:21:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: (from fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id UAA26418; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 20:21:11 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <19990218202110.W596@futuresouth.com> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 20:21:10 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Brian Feldman , phoenix@calldei.com Cc: Erik Funkenbusch , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uptime weirdnessl References: <19990218165940.B12819@holly.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Brian Feldman on Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 07:05:39PM -0500 X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 07:05:39PM -0500, a little birdie told me that Brian Feldman remarked > > On Thu, Feb 18, 1999, Erik Funkenbusch put this into my mailbox: > > > > > > Any ideas? > > Yes. Look at /var/run/wtmp. Look CAREFULLY at /dev/null. Look even more carefully at /var/run/utmp, since wtmp is in /var/log and doesn't affect w/uptime anyway. O:-) --- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | Matthew Fuller http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd | * fullermd@futuresouth.com fullermd@over-yonder.net * | UNIX Systems Administrator Specializing in FreeBSD | * FutureSouth Communications ISPHelp ISP Consulting * | "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, | * is because I haven't figured out how to light the * | middle yet" | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message