A month ago wtmp was corrupted, today wtmp mysteriously is working fine. My experiences contradict those posted in this list:
1. I use ssh with no ill affects on wtmp. 2. mgetty was not installed on my system for over a year. While corruption lasted I was using getty. 3. Long uptimes does not seem to produce negative affects. My uptime today is 19 days and have no wtmp corruption. Since last month, I have probably installed less than 15 packages from bo. It looks like this problem is somehow corrected and will disappears as new packages get installed. Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Tim Sailer wrote: > > > In your email to me, Joey Hess, you wrote: > > > > > > Robert Stone: > > > > so am i the only one getting this? > > > > > > I'm getting it on two machines now. Both use ssh, if it's relevant. > > > The second is really bad: > > > > Bingo!! That seems to be the common factor. If you can reboot, do so. > > The problem seems to go away except for the accounts that are using > > ssh. My logins look like: > > > > tps tty2 *@ Sun Mar 2 23:56 - 02:26 (02:30) > > > > while others that have no ssh files look normal. > > I use ssh on all of my machines, and i use it regularly (instead of rlogin > and rcp and rsh). > > I don't get this wtmp corruption on most of these machines. I get a lot > of corruption on machines which have modems attached and a lot of modem > logins, a little corruption on machines with only a few modem logins, and > no corruption on machines with no modems. > > i initially suspected the new mgetty 1.1. however, i've just downgraded > to mgetty 1.0 and the corruption is still happening. So, the modem logins > may be completely irrelevant. > > Next on my suspect list is ssltelnet - i remember that weird things > happened in the utmp (but not wtmp) file just after i first installed > ssltelnet. i'm going to try reverting to normal telnet for a while and > see if that makes any difference. > > craig > >
