From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 27 09:15:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46F37106567C; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:15:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from philip@paeps.cx) Received: from gateway.nixsys.be (gateway.nixsys.be [IPv6:2001:6f8:32f::42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB3B68FC16; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:15:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from philip@paeps.cx) Received: from detritus.paeps.cx (detritus.paeps.cx [IPv6:2001:6f8:1408::4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "detritus.paeps.cx", Issuer "NixSys CA" (verified OK)) by gateway.nixsys.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id E502C4092; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:15:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from carrot.paeps.cx (carrot [IPv6:2001:6f8:1408::2]) by detritus.paeps.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73686206D; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:15:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from carrot.paeps.cx (philip@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carrot.paeps.cx (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m7R9CuJt005670; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:12:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from philip@carrot.paeps.cx) Received: (from philip@localhost) by carrot.paeps.cx (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m7R9CuLF005669; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:12:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from philip) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:12:55 +0200 From: Philip Paeps To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080827091255.GH3305@carrot.paeps.cx> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org References: <20080826124335.GD3305@carrot.paeps.cx> <48B416E7.70905@163.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48B416E7.70905@163.com> X-PGP-Fingerprint: 356B AE02 4763 F739 2FA2 E438 2649 E628 C5D3 4D05 X-Date: Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 20th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3174 X-Date-in-France: Primidi 11 Fructidor CCXVI, =?utf-8?Q?jour?= =?utf-8?Q?_de_la_past=C3=A8que?= X-Date-in-Rome: ante diem VI Kalendas Septembres MMDCCLXI ab Urbe Condida X-Phase-of-Moon: The Moon is Waning Crescent (15% of Full) X-Message-Flag: Get a proper mailclient! Organization: Happily Disorganized User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: Subject: Re: Enormous utmp since mpsafetty X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:15:14 -0000 On 2008-08-26 22:44:55 (+0800), kevin 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 -- Philip Paeps Please don't Cc me, I am philip@freebsd.org subscribed to the list. Artists are more used to drawing with things like pens than with mice. Maybe Damien Hirst has found a way of being artistic with mice that I haven't heard of... -- Peter Kenny