From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 22 11:26:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pi.yip.org (yip.org [142.154.6.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31E651510D for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 11:26:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Received: from localhost (melange@localhost) by pi.yip.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id OAA17801; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 14:27:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 14:27:18 -0500 (EST) From: Bob K To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 24-character usernames? In-Reply-To: <19990322204803.A47001@rucus.ru.ac.za> 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 On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > On Mon 1999-03-22 (08:43), Bob K wrote: > > pi# who > > nistor ttyp3 Dec 31 22:25 (snickers:ttyp6:S) > > melange ttyp6 Dec 31 19:00 (ttyp4) > > > > Note a) the login date, and b) how user nistor is now logged in from > > snickers:ttyp6:S rather than snickers.org. I've also seen at the top of > > the output things such as w://ttyp4:S.0: no such file or directory (but > > this only happens once in a while). > > Did you whack your old utmp/wtmp? The lack of doing this may cause problems > like this. Er, no. Are there any specific instructions to do this? Is it just a case of cat /dev/null>/var/run/utmp and cat /dev/null>/var/log/wtmp? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message