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Re: utmp problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elias Levy)
Thu Feb 16 19:48:03 1995
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 14:23:31 -0800 (PST)
From: Elias Levy <elias@power.net>
To: "Robert H. Ross" <rross@supernet.net>
cc: linux-net <linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu>, big-linux <big-linux@netspace.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9502161449.B28780-0100000@supernet.net>
Did you start using acct+quotas by any chance?
On Thu, 16 Feb 1995, Robert H. Ross wrote:
>
> I had an unusual problem occur yesterday. All of a sudden my utmp file
> has a problem. When I use the 'w' command it results in the following:
>
> 2:26pm up 1 day, 20:52, 1 user, load average: 1.31, 1.28, 1.22
> User tty from login@ idle JCPU PCPU what
> _setutent: Can't open utmp file: No such file or directory
>
>
> I have restored a utmp file from backup with the same results. I have
> deleted the utmp file and replaced it with an empty file - same results.
> I do not know what happened to cause this nor do I know what to do to fix
> this. Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Bob
>
>
> Robert H. Ross, "Bob" President,
> rross@supernet.net Fourth Wave, Inc.
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elias@power.net (Elias Levy)
PowerNet, Inc.
