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Subject: Re: a last word on last
In-Reply-To: <199701122118.OAA22215@rocky.mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Jan 12, 97 02:18:14 pm"
To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
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> > > > > But piping the last command to anything, be it 'more' or 'head'
> > > > > gives totally garbled output. Fields contain garbage and seem to be
> > > > > shifted by one postition.
> 
> > > I would suggest zeroing out wtmp and seeing what happens.
> > 
> > Well, I zeroed wtmp/utmp several times in the past and the problem
> > came back. This may because of the various changes to the wtmp/utmp thing.
> 
> Are you using an older version of xdm or xterm.  If they haven't been
> recompiled they will create (now bogus) entries.

Besides that I think it is a very bad idea that the wtmp/utmp changes affect
the X applications (this makes running NFSed/NIS/YP clusters with shared
areas for X11 and differing kernels a pain and nearly impossible - and
I hope, that there will be a solution for this (libutil) soon ),
in my case the effect showed already at the vty level.

> 
> 
> Nate
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de