Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:12:55 +0200 From: Philip Paeps <philip@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Enormous utmp since mpsafetty Message-ID: <20080827091255.GH3305@carrot.paeps.cx> In-Reply-To: <48B416E7.70905@163.com> References: <20080826124335.GD3305@carrot.paeps.cx> <48B416E7.70905@163.com>
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On 2008-08-26 22:44:55 (+0800), kevin <kevinxlinuz@163.com> wrote:
> Philip Paeps wrote:
> > Has anyone else noticed that /var/run/utmp sometimes grows to insane sizes
> > (998M) since mpsafetty? I've been trying to pinpoint the culprit but I
> > haven't been successful so far.
> >
> > I don't think mpsafetty itself is to blame. Rather something which expects
> > our old tty system.
> >
> > My original reaction was to blame screen, but I can't immediately see where it
> > might be going wrong.
> >
> > Mysterious. Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Could you check the output of `last`?
The output of last looks sane... last checks wtmp though, not utmp, if I'm
not mistaken? Interestingly, strings on utmp only shows the records I expect
to be there. The rest of the file seems to be filled with zeros.
Very strange.
- Philip
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