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RE: w
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Blundell)
Thu Oct 31 06:13:55 1996
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 11:12:19 +0000 (GMT)
From: Philip Blundell <pjb27@cam.ac.uk>
To: "Castelijn, Maurice" <Castelijn.Maurice@kpmg.nl>
cc: "redhat-list@redhat.com" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Castelijn, Maurice wrote:
> >All the fields look valid there, but the "FROM" one isn't being truncated
> >as it should. This is a bit less annoying, but still looks messy.
>
> How about looking at your /var/run/utmp file? Then look at the
> permissions.
> They MUST be set to -rw-r--r-- ... else you might have a problem other
They are. What makes you think the permissions might be wrong?
> users can write it. Look for a "man utmp" if you've got other questions.
> Perhaps that's of your help.
I have read the manual page for utmp. Perhaps you didn't understand the
problem; why don't you go back and read my original message again? I've
quoted the crux of it at the top of this one in case you lost it.
phil
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