>> "MCV" == M C Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MCV> Which is not what I was asking. I was wondering how to deal with the "on MCV> since saturday", given he has no such process running.
Most likely a corruption in utmp, wtmp or btmp (all located in /var/log). Is the output of last, lastb, w and who OK? Maybe you have sill a libc5 application writing to the respective files without using the wrapper. Format changed between libc5 and libc6. Ciao, Martin -- from a 1996 Microshit ad campaign: "The less you know about computers the more you want Micro$oft!" See! They do get some things right!