Re: utmp/wtmp problem!
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 06:51:27AM +0000, nestea wrote:
> hi folks,
>
> my debian box was newly installed, upgraded to unstable a week ago. i compiled 2.4.9 kernel yesterday and it works just fine. this morning i login as root and fire the 'w' command, i got weird result ;
>
> 14:37:30 up 1 day, 20:30, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
> root pts/0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 09:46 0.00s 0.31s 0.01s w
> debian:/etc/init.d#
> i still have not idea ... i know i can
> 'cat /dev/null > /var/run/utmp' and
> 'cat /dev/null > /var/log/wtmp'
>
> to resolve this, but i really want to know why.
as forrest gump said, "it happens". the wtmp file can get
borked, and then reports based on it can get fuxnored.
after moving/clobbering the files you may need to restart your
logging facilities; they will most likely still be writing their
information to their open file handles, which would still point
to the old (marked-for-deletion-or-whatever) files.
/etc/init.d/sysklogd restart|reload|yadayada <i think>
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