Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 08:51:53 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, mpp@freefall.freebsd.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: a last word on last Message-ID: <199701130751.IAA05553@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199701122118.OAA22215@rocky.mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Jan 12, 97 02:18:14 pm"
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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
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