Re: Strange finger information

1998-11-26 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: > The log files are in binary format, and I have no idea about how to sort > this out :(, so any assistance much appreaciated. rm /var/log/wtmp touch /var/log/wtmp All done. Thats If you dont mind losing all the records. Otherwise, copy the utmp file somew

Re: Strange finger information

1998-11-26 Thread M.C. Vernon
On 26 Nov 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > >> "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 (al

Re: Strange finger information

1998-11-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "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

Re: Strange finger information

1998-11-26 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 01:53:32PM +, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > This is puzzling me: > > > > finger -l apc27 gives this: > > > > > > > > yet there are no processes belonging to him running. How do I get rid of > > that on sin

Re: Strange finger information

1998-11-26 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 01:53:32PM +, M.C. Vernon wrote: > Dear all, > > This is puzzling me: > > finger -l apc27 gives this: > > > > yet there are no processes belonging to him running. How do I get rid of > that on since sat message? > > Thanks, > > Matthew > > Login: apc27

Strange finger information

1998-11-25 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, This is puzzling me: finger -l apc27 gives this: yet there are no processes belonging to him running. How do I get rid of that on since sat message? Thanks, Matthew Login: apc27Name: Andrew Cowley Directory: /home/apc27 Shell: /