Does wu-ftpd corrupt utmp?
I am having problems with running dpkg-makepackage using -rfakeroot.
The beginning and end of the transcript look like
$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b
utmp entry ("") does not match value of LOGNAME ("bates"); using "bates" at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 19.
no utmp entry available, using value of LOGNAME ("bates") at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 16.
dpkg-buildpackage: source package is xlispstat
...
--------------- debstd processing for Linux --------------
-- Installing Documentation
-- Looking for manpages in sourcepackage
** Main Package xlispstat
-- Checking for executable binaries in package
usr/bin/xlispstat Script
Warning : Executable usr/bin/xlispstat has no manpage!
usr/lib/xlispstat/xlisp ELF Binary
-- Figuring out dependencies of ELF objects
unable to get login information for username "" at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 27.
-- Compressing Documentation
-- Checking Symlinks
--------------- debstd processing finished --------------
dpkg-gencontrol
unable to get login information for username "" at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 27.
make: *** [binary-arch] Error 13
I see other symptoms of what I think are problems with /var/run/utmp
in that the "who" program lists defunct logins but "w" does not. Also
"last" gives incorrect information on the ftp connections. At least I
believe these problems are related to /var/run/utmp but I am no expert
on this.
I was using the ftp daemon from the wu-ftpd-academ package which seems
to still be a libc5 package. I have now replaced it with the proftpd
daemon.
My questions are:
- Would a libc5 wu-ftpd cause corruption of my /var/run/utmp file?
- Would a corrupt /var/run/utmp cause the warnings I am seeing
/usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl?
- Should I expect the proftpd daemon not to have this problem?
- Now that I have installed proftpd, should I try to purge the
/var/run/utmp file? If so, how?
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Douglas Bates bates@stat.wisc.edu
Statistics Department 608/262-2598
University of Wisconsin - Madison http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/
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