On 2015-12-21, Duncan Patton a Campbell <campb...@neotext.ca> wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 12:37:30 -0800
> Philip Guenther <guent...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well, you apparently know that the data comes from /var/log/wtmp, so
>> what's the status of that file?  It should be a normal file of
>> non-zero length.  If it's a symlink to /dev/null or something bogus
>> then you need to figure out why and maybe reinstall from scratch.
>> 
>
> # ls -l /var/log/wtmp 
> - -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  0 Dec 19 04:00 /var/log/wtmp

Are any flags set on it?  ls -lo

>> Also, you failed to include the dmesg or even mention what version
>> you're running, so maybe we should just go with "you're clearly
>> running an out of date version and probably screwed up an upgrade
>> across the time_t size change"...

There isn't a '> /var/log/wtmp' or something in rc.local from a past
upgrade across the time_t bump is there?

Reply via email to