Re: Strange finger information

1998-11-26 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 01:53:32PM +, M.C. Vernon wrote: Dear all, This is puzzling me: finger -l apc27 gives this: included below yet there are no processes belonging to him running. How do I get rid of that on since sat message? Thanks, Matthew Login: apc27

Re: Strange finger information

1998-11-26 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 01:53:32PM +, M.C. Vernon wrote: Dear all, This is puzzling me: finger -l apc27 gives this: included below yet there are no processes belonging to him running. How do I get rid of that on since sat

Re: Strange finger information

1998-11-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
MCV == M C Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MCV Which is not what I was asking. I was wondering how to deal with the on MCV since saturday, given he has no such process running. Most likely a corruption in utmp, wtmp or btmp (all located in /var/log). Is the output of last, lastb, w and who

Re: Strange finger information

1998-11-26 Thread M.C. Vernon
On 26 Nov 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: MCV == M C Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MCV Which is not what I was asking. I was wondering how to deal with the on MCV since saturday, given he has no such process running. Most likely a corruption in utmp, wtmp or btmp (all located in

Re: Strange finger information

1998-11-26 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: The log files are in binary format, and I have no idea about how to sort this out :(, so any assistance much appreaciated. rm /var/log/wtmp touch /var/log/wtmp All done. Thats If you dont mind losing all the records. Otherwise, copy the utmp file

Strange finger information

1998-11-25 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, This is puzzling me: finger -l apc27 gives this: included below yet there are no processes belonging to him running. How do I get rid of that on since sat message? Thanks, Matthew Login: apc27Name: Andrew Cowley Directory: /home/apc27