From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 26 12:45:54 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DCCF106567C for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:45:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from philip@paeps.cx) Received: from gateway.nixsys.be (gateway.nixsys.be [IPv6:2001:6f8:32f::42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26FFF8FC31 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:45:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from philip@paeps.cx) Received: from detritus.paeps.cx (detritus.paeps.cx [IPv6:2001:6f8:1408::4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "detritus.paeps.cx", Issuer "NixSys CA" (verified OK)) by gateway.nixsys.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AA9040D4 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:45:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from carrot.paeps.cx (carrot [IPv6:2001:6f8:1408::2]) by detritus.paeps.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6F412082 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:45:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from carrot.paeps.cx (philip@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carrot.paeps.cx (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m7QChbCI081330 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:43:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from philip@carrot.paeps.cx) Received: (from philip@localhost) by carrot.paeps.cx (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m7QChaZG081101 for current@freebsd.org; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:43:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from philip) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:43:35 +0200 From: Philip Paeps To: current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080826124335.GD3305@carrot.paeps.cx> Mail-Followup-To: current@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline X-PGP-Fingerprint: 356B AE02 4763 F739 2FA2 E438 2649 E628 C5D3 4D05 X-Date: Today is Pungenday, the 19th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3174 X-Date-in-France: =?utf-8?Q?D=C3=A9cadi_10_Fructidor_CCXVI?= =?utf-8?Q?=2C_jour_de_l'=C3=A9chelle?= X-Date-in-Rome: ante diem VII Kalendas Septembres MMDCCLXI ab Urbe Condida X-Phase-of-Moon: The Moon is Waning Crescent (23% of Full) X-Message-Flag: Get a proper mailclient! Organization: Happily Disorganized User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: Subject: Enormous utmp since mpsafetty X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:45:54 -0000 Has anyone else noticed that /var/run/utmp sometimes grows to insane sizes (998M) since mpsafetty? I've been trying to pinpoint the culprit but I haven't been successful so far. I don't think mpsafetty itself is to blame. Rather something which expects our old tty system. My original reaction was to blame screen, but I can't immediately see where it might be going wrong. Mysterious. Anyone have any ideas? - Philip -- Philip Paeps Please don't Cc me, I am philip@freebsd.org subscribed to the list. Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four. -- (Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times)