Re: SOLVED: Erk! Something is *really* wrong here!
At 05:30 PM 3/3/97 +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>I think your wtmp file is corrupt. The standard cron.monthly script
>rotates it every month - so then you start out with a clean one and
>the problem is gone.
>
>Just copy your wtmp file to wtmp.old or so, and truncate (not delete) the
>original one using ": > /var/log/wtmp" when this happens again.
Ok, I've just done this. However, would this have any relation to the utmp
corrupting outputs of 'w' and 'who' as well?
Regards
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