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Subject: Re: a last word on last
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970112215435.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Jan 12, 97 09:54:35 pm"
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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 08:57:38 +0100 (MET)
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> As Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> There has only been a single change yet.
> 
> You can also use src/tools/3.0-upgrade/cvs-wtmp.

I did that a couple of times and either cvs-wtmp barfed at
some entries or it didn't work for some other reasons.

> 
> > Anyway, yes, it looks ok now after deleting/touching wtmp/utmp again.
> > Though some entries will have to accumulate still to get a better picture.
> 
> It looks that something is still writing in the wrong format, probably
> third-party software.

Maybe Xaccel? But why do we pile up obstacles for running third party
software? I don't expect that Xinside care for holding ready versions
for pre and post 2.2 FreeBSD.

I know that the wtmp/utmp issues have been discussed widely but
a clearing word on this issue would really be helpful. What is the idea 
to cope with this problem?

> 
> -- 
> cheers, J"org
> 
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
> 

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