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Date:      Thu, 18 Feb 1999 20:21:10 -0600
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To:        Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>, phoenix@calldei.com
Cc:        Erik Funkenbusch <erikf@visi.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: uptime weirdnessl
Message-ID:  <19990218202110.W596@futuresouth.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902181903010.26929-100000@janus.syracuse.net>; from Brian Feldman on Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 07:05:39PM -0500
References:  <19990218165940.B12819@holly.dyndns.org> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902181903010.26929-100000@janus.syracuse.net>

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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:-)



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