Paul McDermott wrote: > > Hello everybody, I am having problems with some programs after the bo to > hamm upgrade. when I use last or any other commands that use the file > wtmp. I have some problems, ie last does give me garbage for people > logged in. The other problem is that wtmp does not update the anonymous > ftp account. I have 2 logged in for the past two days. I did the steps > after the upgrade to create a new wtmp file. mv wtmp, touch wtmp rm -f > /var/log/utmp. touch utmp then shutdown -r now. things did not change. > At least this month I don't have garbage from the last output. Anyone > else have this problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > Paul > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From the excellent auotup.sh script: # The latest version of this script can always be found at: # http://www.taz.net.au/autoup/autoup/ # and at: # http://csanders.vicnet.net.au/autoup/ # # please check that you have the latest version before running this # script. ----------------[ snipped ]---------------- Finally, remember to fix up wtmp and utmp, otherwise last and who and sac etc wont work. here's what Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> had to say about this recently in debian-user mailing list: > 1. You need to update ALL your packages to hamm > 2. Reboot if you haven't done that already > 3. You need to move the wtmp file and truncate the utmp file: > cd /var/log > mv wtmp wtmp.libc5 > touch wtmp > cd /var/run > cp /dev/null utmp > 4. You might want to reboot again to make sure > > This is because the "struct utmp" and thus the utmp and wtmp > "databases" are different between libc5 and libc6 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
