[Petter Reinholdtsen] > I believe runlevel uses /var/run/*tmp, and guess its content is bogus. > Any idea what could mess up the utmp/wtmp files?
It is calling setutent()/getutent() to find the runlevel information, and this reads /var/run/utmp to get the current status. No idea what could mess up utmp. [Henrique de Moraes Holschuh] > Can't we fix it to ask init? Resilience is good, and init is NEVER wrong > about the runlevel... I guess we could extend init/runlevel to track this information. Would have to extend /dev/initctl protocol and make runlevel suid root, I guess. Do init know about the previous runlevel? If not, it would have to be extended to have this information. Is it worth it to make runlevel suid root, to work around a strange bug in something messing up /var/run/utmp? Happy hacking, - Petter Reinholdtsen _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
