Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 14:27:18 -0500 (EST) From: Bob K <melange@yip.org> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 24-character usernames? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903221424410.283-100000@pi.yip.org> In-Reply-To: <19990322204803.A47001@rucus.ru.ac.za>
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On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > On Mon 1999-03-22 (08:43), Bob K wrote: > > pi# who > > nistor ttyp3 Dec 31 22:25 (snickers:ttyp6:S) > > melange ttyp6 Dec 31 19:00 (ttyp4) > > > > Note a) the login date, and b) how user nistor is now logged in from > > snickers:ttyp6:S rather than snickers.org. I've also seen at the top of > > the output things such as w://ttyp4:S.0: no such file or directory (but > > this only happens once in a while). > > Did you whack your old utmp/wtmp? The lack of doing this may cause problems > like this. Er, no. Are there any specific instructions to do this? Is it just a case of cat /dev/null>/var/run/utmp and cat /dev/null>/var/log/wtmp? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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