Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 13:18:17 -0800 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems after upgrade/re-install Message-ID: <19990319131817.B75084@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903191339510.4752-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>; from Brett Taylor on Fri, Mar 19, 1999 at 01:53:26PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903191339510.4752-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
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On Fri, Mar 19, 1999 at 01:53:26PM -0700, Brett Taylor wrote: > I clearly munged something by just moving the passwd and group files over > from their backups. How can I fix this so things like talk work again? This is just guesswork, but since you ran pwd_mkdb after restoring master.passwd, I would expect the password files to be in good shape. My guess is that your utmp and/or wtmp are causing problems, because their format changed to accomodate the longer usernames in 3.0, and talk is probably looking at utmp to see if you're logged in, and getting confused because the file format is wrong. I would copy /var/run/wtmp (if it is a custom among your people to keep them for recordkeeping) and then remove both utmp and wtmp, and "touch" them. Then log in again so that your presence is recorded in utmp, and see if talk works. Matt -- Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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