-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 19:58:28 -0800 Philip Guenther <guent...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Duncan Patton a Campbell > <campb...@neotext.ca> wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 12:37:30 -0800 > > Philip Guenther <guent...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Duncan Patton a Campbell > >> <campb...@neotext.ca> wrote: > >> > I've a question about last/utmp/wtmp that someone here should be > >> > able to answer. > >> > > >> > At the shell I do > >> > > >> > # date > >> > Sat Dec 19 16:29:07 MST 2015 > >> > # last > >> > > >> > wtmp begins Sat Dec 19 16:29 2015 > >> > > >> > This appears to set the beginning time to "now" > >> > every time I run the thing. WTF sets the > >> > lower bound so as to see back from "now"? > >> > > >> > It is not exactly obvious from the man pages how this works. > >> > I'm sure it's there, I just can't find it. > >> > >> 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 > > (Not sure why there's that extra '- ' at the beginning of that. Did > your email client quote it?) Apparently yes. > > So, the file isn't growing. Why? Is the filesystem full? Is /var > not mounted read-write? # df Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/sd2a 49547260 8237420 38832480 18% / # mount /dev/sd2a on / type ffs (local) # last wtmp begins Sat Dec 26 11:55 2015 l /var/log/wtmp - -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Dec 26 04:00 /var/log/wtmp And the only mention of wtmp in /etc is in newsyslog.conf newsyslog.conf:/var/log/wtmp 644 7 * $W6D4 B and in mtree/special mtree/special:wtmp type=file mode=0644 uname=root gname=wheel thanks, Dhu > > > >> 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 running an out of date version and probably screwed up an upgrade 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"... > > > > I'm running 5.7 dmesg as follows: > > > > OpenBSD 5.7 (GENERIC.MP) #881: Sun Mar 8 11:04:17 MDT 2015 > > dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP > > Good; not a known problem in that release. (Hmm, -current might run > cooler since kettenis enabled some deeper mwait bits on AMD CPUs after > 5.8 was released, iirc.) > > > Philip Guenther > - -- http://babayaga.neotext.ca/PublicKeys/Duncan_Patton_a_Campbell_pubkey.txt Ne obliviscaris, vix ea nostra voco. iF4EAREIAAYFAlZ+48EACgkQiY6AzzR1lzw6YQD8DhKxw5vH9v4DjX9ff2WrkSSM lNGloWEJ1r8GImdA4OsA/RVHt/tl66Nl4EJkarVPhuL3v/XDSiuM+X/cLrc60qaR =V9tn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
