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 up 1

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

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 F2),

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

1997-04-27 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

1997-04-26 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. I have a strange wtmp problem, and something suggests

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 utmp

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 find

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 into

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 (yet) so

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 versions of important system