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From: phyllis@bcsaic.UUCP (Phyllis Melvin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: wtmp problem
Message-ID: <1041@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8-May-87 17:53:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: bcsaic.1041
Posted: Fri May  8 17:53:12 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 10-May-87 02:11:20 EDT
References: <469@uhccux.UUCP>
Organization: Boeing Computer Services ATC, Seattle
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Keywords: garbage in /usr/adm/wtmp

In article <469@uhccux.UUCP> Todd writes:

>....As you can see my wtmp file was getting data ok 
>and then it looks like some garbage got thrown into it 

I've seen the same problem 6 or 8 times. The garbage inserted
is the same (/002/003/020) and it's always between records.  
I was unable to find the cause so I wrote a program to examine 
wtmp and fix such corruptions.  

I'm also using Ultrix 1.2. 
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