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Date:      Sat, 1 Dec 2001 09:52:50 +1300
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Corrupted wtmp file
Message-ID:  <20011201095250.A4916@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <20011130081730.A14619@raggedclown.net>; from cliff@raggedclown.net on Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 08:17:30AM %2B0100
References:  <20011130081730.A14619@raggedclown.net>

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On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 08:17:30AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
> Hello,
> My wtmp file keeps getting corrupted into nonsense,
> very similar nonsense each time.
> Suggestions ?

Some root level program you're running that writes to wtmp has not
been updated to the FreeBSD-4.x format (which is slightly different from
the 3.x series). It'd be likely to be some 3rd party stuff you've got
installed like screen(1). The easiest way to fix them would be to recompile
it from ports.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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