Re: SOLVED: Erk! Something is *really* wrong here!
In article <[🔎] 3.0.1.32.19970303182911.006c1b68@tower.net.au>,
Karl Ferguson <karl@tower.net.au> wrote:
>>> For some reason now I'm getting bad logging to the wtmp file. When a
>>> client logs in it puts them in there, and then when another logs in it
>>> wipes the first one out and puts the new one in there.
>>>
>>> It says rubbish like this:
>>>
>>>
>>> P ******y**3 Wed Feb 26 18:50 - 18:54 (00:04)
>
>Well, here's some extra news... I recently rebooted again after upgrading
>the libc's to 5.4.23 from 5.4.20 and the problem happened again (with the
>28 kernel). I decided to recompile the kernel with the new libc's etc,
>installed it, rebooted, and now the problem has gone way again - I dare not
>reboot :-)
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.
Mike.
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