From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 21 3:32:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15A1037B401 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 03:32:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nohow.demon.co.uk (nohow.demon.co.uk [212.228.18.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9694B43E6A for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 03:32:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from noway@nohow.demon.co.uk) Received: from flatdesk.local (flatdesk.local [127.0.0.1]) by nohow.demon.co.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g8LAVnCG000858 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 11:31:49 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from noway@nohow.demon.co.uk) Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 11:31:49 +0100 (BST) From: Jose Marques To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird uptime(1) output In-Reply-To: <20020921085302.GA1671@grimoire.chen.org.nz> Message-ID: <20020921113034.W435-100000@flatdesk.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 01:27:35AM -0500, David Syphers wrote: > > Thanks for the tip! I've tracked this down to the use of "kdm". If > someone logs in using "kdm", it makes an entry in /var/run/utmp with > the ttys entry of ":0". w(1) and uptime(1) examines this and since > there is no "/dev/:0", the complaint comes up. I use: cd /dev ln -s console :0 No more warnings. -- Jose Marques To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message