On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 07:05:39PM -0500, a little birdie told me > that Brian Feldman remarked > > > On Thu, Feb 18, 1999, Erik Funkenbusch put this into my mailbox: > > > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Yes. Look at /var/run/wtmp. Look CAREFULLY at /dev/null. > > Look even more carefully at /var/run/utmp, since wtmp is in /var/log and > doesn't affect w/uptime anyway. O:-) >
Eek, it must be that bug in remember.c:similarly_named_files(). Time to upgrade to Brain 1.1-STABLE! Btw, I was of course referring to wtmp being garbage and /dev/null being a "regular" file. > > > --- > > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > | Matthew Fuller http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd | > * fulle...@futuresouth.com fulle...@over-yonder.net * > | UNIX Systems Administrator Specializing in FreeBSD | > * FutureSouth Communications ISPHelp ISP Consulting * > | "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, | > * is because I haven't figured out how to light the * > | middle yet" | > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ http://www.freebsd.org/ _ __ ___ ____ | _ \__ \ |) | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ ___ ____ _____ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
