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Re: wtmp entries
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob McKee)
Sat Aug 17 07:14:07 1996
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 03:16:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rob McKee <Imcom@imcom.com>
To: David Holland <dholland@hcs.harvard.edu>
cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199608170056.UAA12598@hcs.harvard.edu>
Then have your Makefile tell people what files it's missing and suggest a
place to go get it.. and your Makefile drove me up a wall for about a
hour..
PS: I liked the /* comment */ in that one Makefile, 'cepting make didn't
like it.
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On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, David Holland wrote:
> > Quick question, where can I find rlogin, rsh, telnet, etc... that
> > properly register entries in wtmp??
>
> Current logins go in utmp; wtmp is the log.
>
> Most likely you've got more than one utmp file. There are three
> locations for utmp; make sure they all refer to the same file:
> /etc/utmp
> /var/adm/utmp
> /var/run/utmp
>
> In any event, the current versions of rlogind and telnetd can be
> gotten from NetKit-B-0.07A or NetKit-B-0.08 (which I will be releasing
> later tonight.)
>
> Please note that "NetKit-B-0.07B" is a bogus unauthorized release;
> please delete it and definitely don't use it.
>
> --
> - David A. Holland | Number of words in the English language that
> dholland@hcs.harvard.edu | exist because of typos or misreadings: 381
>
