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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: wtmp problem
Message-ID: <1383@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Feb-87 06:13:23 EST
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1383
Posted: Tue Feb 10 06:13:23 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 11-Feb-87 07:49:49 EST
References: <314@uhccux.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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Keywords: /usr/adm/wtmp not logging properly

In article <314@uhccux.UUCP> todd@uhccux.UUCP (The Perplexed Wiz) writes:
>I have a VAX 8650 running Ultrix 1.2 and just ran across a problem with
>my wtmp file that puzzled me.  It seems that logins were not being
>logged into the wtmp file as usual.  The wtmp file was not particularly
>large (just over 100K) and was nulled eight days ago.  Everything else
>on the system seemed fine.
>to clear the log file and that seemed to restart logging properly.
>Has anyone else running Ultrix or 4.2BSD had this problem with wtmp?
>Any hints on what happened would be appreciated.  I've never seen this happen
>before....todd
>
>Todd Ogasawara, U. of Hawaii Computing Center

Just noticed something similar here a day or two ago.  Actually, it looks
like wtmp is ok, but the last command is digging up garbage somewhere.
I haven't had time to dig into it yet.  We have also seen situations where
the user-id vs terminals reported by w are out of sync and talk seems to
go to the wrong person!

We're running Ultrix 1.2 on 750...
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