From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 22 12:11: 3 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 A31F514E12 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:11:01 -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 PAA18249; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 15:10:47 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 15:10:47 -0500 (EST) From: Bob K To: Neil Blakey-Milner , David Hawkins Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 24-character usernames? In-Reply-To: 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, Bob K wrote: > On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > > > 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? Well, I gave this a try. No dice: 3:07PM up 1 day, 4:08, 3 users, load averages: 0.12, 0.18, 0.11 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT melange p0 slam3.ican.net 3:06PM - screen (screen-3.7.6) melange p1 - 31Dec69 - (pine) ttyp2 - Fri12AM 13:07 - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message