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From: crscott@sdrc.UUCP (Scott_Klosterman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: WARNING 3.2.1 may remove your accounting data
Message-ID: <1009@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 89 19:37:41 GMT
Organization: SDRC, Cincinnati
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     After installing 3.2.1 you will find the following
     entry in /usr/spool/cron/crontabs/root


      2      1       *       *       0       umask 033;
      cd /etc;if test -f wtmp; then mv -f wtmp OLDwtmp; 
      touch wtmp; fi


      This may have been present in 3.2 but I don't re-
      call it. Maybe some-one at SGI could comment as to
      when exactly the line is adding as a comment and 
      when it is not. But if you have a home-brewed system
      for accounting which depends on /etc/wtmp you may
      experience technical difficulties :-) 

                                     Scott Klosterman
                                     SGI Sys. Admin.