From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 21 11:46:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA13118 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 11:46:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA12914 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 18:45:29 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA04171; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 11:45:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 11:45:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Terry Peluso cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Technical Question about w and who. In-Reply-To: <353C2CE9.67A3717@wmhs.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Terry Peluso wrote: > We have a school webserver running 3.0 Current. > The problem is that w returns this: > > wmhs# w > w: /dev//net.inet.ip.forwarding: 0 -> 1 > : No such file or directory > wmhs# > > who returns this: > > wmhs# who > .ip.forwarding: net.inetDec 31 16:00 (0 -> 1 > ) > root ttyp0 Apr 20 21:39 (208.250.188.186) > wmhs# > > This problem Just popped up today. The Server was ungracefully shutdown > by a janitor for spring break. Got it up today and found that w did the > above. Me and another Admin fooled with it for a few hours. We > recompiled w and it still didn't work. > If you could please give us some troubleshooting areas to check we would > thank you greatly. Looks like /var/run/utmp is corrupted. Try deleting it and rebooting. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message