Re: lastlog is looking strange

1997-03-17 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
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 doe

Re: lastlog is looking strange

1997-03-06 Thread Joey Hess
Craig Sanders: > I use ssh on all of my machines, and i use it regularly (instead of rlogin > and rcp and rsh). As do I. I'm getting corruption on a machine that only gets logins via telnet and ssh, and the rare console login. > I don't get this wtmp corruption on most of these machines. I ge

Re: lastlog is looking strange

1997-03-06 Thread Craig Sanders
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 fact

Re: lastlog is looking strange

1997-03-06 Thread Tim Sailer
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 a

Re: lastlog is looking strange

1997-03-05 Thread Joey Hess
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: g***z*** }*** Tue Mar 4 01:38 still logged in g***z*** }*** Tue Mar 4 01:38 - 01:38 (00:00) g***z

Re: lastlog is looking strange

1997-03-05 Thread Joey Hess
Robert Stone: > i'm not sure when it started, but one of my debian 1.3 system has lines > like: > > {*** 'y*3 Tue Mar 4 11:33 - 16:37 (05:04) > > in the output of the 'last' command. three other 1.3 systems and > another 1.2 system i use are not having this probl

Re: lastlog is looking strange

1997-03-05 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Robert Stone, you wrote: > > i'm not sure when it started, but one of my debian 1.3 system has lines > like: > > {*** 'y*3 Tue Mar 4 11:33 - 16:37 (05:04) > > in the output of the 'last' command. three other 1.3 systems and > another 1.2 sys

lastlog is looking strange

1997-03-05 Thread Robert Stone
i'm not sure when it started, but one of my debian 1.3 system has lines like: {*** 'y*3 Tue Mar 4 11:33 - 16:37 (05:04) in the output of the 'last' command. three other 1.3 systems and another 1.2 system i use are not having this problem. the only major between