Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 23:01:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Meir Dukhan <meir@bis.co.il> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird last(1) output after installing wu-ftpd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980523225822.9142M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3563B82C.D180BBD2@bis.co.il>
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On Thu, 21 May 1998, Meir Dukhan wrote: > > > However, on the FreeBSD boxes I get a junk last(1) output (see below), > > > with a lot of "still login in" connections, which is totally wrong > > > (tested with netstat). Also, the last(1) output on the Linux box is ok. > > > > You mixed a -CURRENT binary with a -STABLE system. -CURRENT has long > > usernames and -STABLE does not, and since the fields in wtmp are > > fixed-length, it scribbled all over it. > > Thanks for the info, but how do I fix it and what -CURRENT and -STABLE means > ? Are you saying that my systems (2.1.6 and 2.2.2) are 'stable', > but the wu-ftpd version I installed is 'current' ? How can I check these > tags -CURRENT and -STABLE ? I tried various flags of pkg_info and see no > such tags. 2.2.x releases are -STABLE, and the coming 3.0 series is -CURRENT. In a nutshell, the -STABLE branch reflects code that has be well tested in practice and is `stable' to release to the wide world, while -CURRENT is the current bleeding edge. Often the branches will diverge on certain features, and the long filename changes are one such feature. You'll know if you're running -CURRENT since you have to build it directly from source or from a 3.0-SNAPSHOT. There are futher details on the branch system in the Handbook and FAQ. I'm guessing that yes, the version of wu-ftpd you installed was built on a -CURRENT system. Did you install it as a package from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org? To fix it, either make sure you grab the packages from the packages-2.2.6 directory on the FTP site or build the wu-ftpd port. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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