Re: utmp/wtmp problem!

2001-09-09 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 06:51:27AM +, nestea wrote: > hi folks, > > my debian box was newly installed, upgraded to unstable a week ago. i > compiled 2.4.9 kernel yesterday and it works just fine. this morning i login > as root and fire the 'w' command, i got weird result ; > > 14:37:30 u

utmp/wtmp problem!

2001-08-24 Thread nestea
hi folks, my debian box was newly installed, upgraded to unstable a week ago. i compiled 2.4.9 kernel yesterday and it works just fine. this morning i login as root and fire the 'w' command, i got weird result ; 14:37:30 up 1 day, 20:30, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 USER TTY

Re: wtmp problem

1997-04-28 Thread Christopher W Hafey
> I take it your logging into this box via a serial port? > I believe that's the cause of it - Consoles and telnet > logins appear fine for me. > > -- > Karl Ferguson Here's how it hits my machine (kernel: 2.0.30) I login to vt1 (alt F1), do a 'finger': I'm logged on. I login to vt2 (alt

Re: wtmp problem

1997-04-27 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 12:56 AM 27/04/97 -0400, Eloy A. Paris wrote: >Probably it's nothing but I know for sure my utmp file got corrupted >when my /var partition got full after the guys here at the >office sent lots of e-mails with large attachments. > >I just started over with a zero length utmp and everything went

Re: wtmp problem

1997-04-27 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Probably it's nothing but I know for sure my utmp file got corrupted when my /var partition got full after the guys here at the office sent lots of e-mails with large attachments. I just started over with a zero length utmp and everything went fine. E.- > OK, which log file gets corrupted - the

Re: wtmp problem

1997-04-26 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 10:26 PM 26/04/97 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >Oh great, you can reproduce it. Can you tell me > >1. which logfile gets corrupted Both the wtmp and utmp. >2. When (before login, during session, after logout) Upon login it seems fine, but upon logout it seems to write two enteries int

Re: wtmp problem

1997-04-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Karl Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At 09:12 PM 26/04/97 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >>I don't think so. I've seen this behaviour before. The wtmp code >>didn't change between 2.69 and 2.70 - the utmp code did (but very >>slightly, and I still can't fi

Re: wtmp problem

1997-04-26 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 09:12 PM 26/04/97 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >I don't think so. I've seen this behaviour before. The wtmp code >didn't change between 2.69 and 2.70 - the utmp code did (but very >slightly, and I still can't find anything wrong with it). Anyway for >2.71 the new code will be used for ut

Re: wtmp problem

1997-04-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Karl Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At 10:30 AM 25/04/97 +0300, Daniel MOSMONDOR - Mosh wrote: >>Hi! >> >>I am kind of new to this mailing list, so please excuse me if this subject >>is running around for some time.

Re: wtmp problem

1997-04-25 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 10:30 AM 25/04/97 +0300, Daniel MOSMONDOR - Mosh wrote: >Hi! > >I am kind of new to this mailing list, so please excuse me if this subject >is running around for some time. > >I have a strange wtmp problem, and something suggests that is has something >to do with different

wtmp problem

1997-04-25 Thread Daniel MOSMONDOR - Mosh
Hi! I am kind of new to this mailing list, so please excuse me if this subject is running around for some time. I have a strange wtmp problem, and something suggests that is has something to do with different versions of important system files. I don't consider myself as a linux guru (ye