On 26 Nov 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > >> "MCV" == M C Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > MCV> Which is not what I was asking. I was wondering how to deal with the "on > MCV> since saturday", given he has no such process running. > > Most likely a corruption in utmp, wtmp or btmp (all located in > /var/log). > > Is the output of last, lastb, w and who OK?
last still has the login lastb says /var/log/btmp: No such file or directory w is correct (i.e. doesn't say he's logged in) who is incorrect. The log files are in binary format, and I have no idea about how to sort this out :(, so any assistance much appreaciated. Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
