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From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: wtmp problem
Message-ID: <1826@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5-May-87 04:28:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1826
Posted: Tue May  5 04:28:33 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 6-May-87 05:39:31 EDT
References: <469@uhccux.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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Keywords: garbage in /usr/adm/wtmp

In article <469@uhccux.UUCP> todd@uhccux.UUCP (The Perplexed Wiz) writes:
>
>Has anyone else had a problem with their /usr/adm/wtmp file like what
>I have below?  The output is from a quick and dirty program I wrote
>to look at utmp and wtmp files.  As you can see my wtmp file was
>getting data ok and then it looks like some garbage got thrown into
>it causing an extra field to be inserted between the last "good"
>structure field and the next entry into wtmp.

>System specifics: VAX 8650 running Ultrix 1.2.

I could have guessed...

This seems to be a frequently encountered Ultrix 1.2 problem.  I think both
utmp and wtmp get corrupted, since occasionally "w" will give bogus results.

My suspicion is that it is caused by "set hosts" from VMS, especially since the
problem here seems to have gone away with everyone now using our LAT terminal
servers or TCP facilities.

I don't know of any solution...  Fred, are your there?

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