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. >> >>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 (yet) so please help me with information you posses. >> >>Here is the copy of last log: >> >>onyx:~> last -10 >>***~**2 !****g`3 Fri Apr 25 10:13 still logged in >>ppp ttyD1 Fri Apr 25 10:12 still logged in >>***~**2 !***cf`3 Fri Apr 25 10:07 - 10:13 (00:06) >>ppp ttyD3 Fri Apr 25 09:47 still logged in >>***~**2 !****^`3 Fri Apr 25 09:36 - 10:07 (00:31) >>mosh ftp mosh.bbm.hr Fri Apr 25 09:20 - 09:20 (00:00) >>ppp ttyD2 Fri Apr 25 09:00 still logged in >>mosh ttyp0 mosh.bbm.hr Fri Apr 25 08:51 still logged in >>ppp ttyD4 Fri Apr 25 08:44 still logged in >>ppp ttyD0 Fri Apr 25 08:40 still logged in >> >>wtmp begins Tue Apr 22 15:41:03 1997 >>onyx:~> > >This is a problem with the sysvinit package version 2.70 and it's new >glibc6 compatability. If you downgrade to 2.69-1 in the rex distribution >it should solve this problem.
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 utmp in init. But that won't solve this problem. I think it's just the fact that his /var/log/wtmp file is corrupt ie. not a multiple of sizeof(struct utmp). There are some rogue programs out there that do not write the 56 bytes of the current struct utmp atomically, I think. Just truncate the wtmp file with cp /dev/null /var/log/wtmp and it will start working again. Mike. -- | Miquel van | I know one million ways, to always pick | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the wrong fantasy --- the Black Crowes | | PGP fingerprint: FE 66 52 4F CD 59 A5 36 7F 39 8B 20 F1 D6 74 02 | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .