I've seen the same thing for months now. I have discovered it can be
fixed by removing utmp and restarting syslog without shutting the machine
down. It would appear that utmp is not being rotated safely as this
always seems to occur after a log rotation.
Chris
On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Brian Schneider wrote:
> Upgrade your sh-utils package to sh-utils-1.16-9.i386.rpm in
> /pub/home/wanger/misc at ftp.redhat.com
>
>
> It worked for me, my uptime since I upgraded these files is 25 days and
> who still works fine.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Brian
> On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Fred Whipple wrote:
>
> > LG wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Running redhat 5.0, and get this silly Memory Exhasted error, whenever I
> > > run who. I have plenty of memory, so I figure it is buggy somewhere.
> > >
> > > Anyone else have this problem, and have been able to fix it?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mike
> >
> > Mike,
> >
> > Though I don't personally know what causes it, I find that this occurs
> > after having a particular system up for, oh, say, beyond 2 weeks or so.
> > It's a relatively busy system, if that helps. The only way I've
> > personally 'fixed' the problem is waiting for a power outage to take
> > down the system and bring it back up (i.e., reboot). Seems harmless,
> > and of course finger is always available as a 'who' substitute.
> >
> > -Fred
> >
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