Re: Strange finger information
>> "MCV" == M C Vernon <mcv21@cus.cam.ac.uk> writes:
MCV> Which is not what I was asking. I was wondering how to deal with the "on
MCV> since saturday", given he has no such process running.
Most likely a corruption in utmp, wtmp or btmp (all located in
/var/log).
Is the output of last, lastb, w and who OK?
Maybe you have sill a libc5 application writing to the respective
files without using the wrapper. Format changed between libc5 and
libc6.
Ciao,
Martin
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