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Re: sun4 9.0.13: dialups

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nickolai Zeldovich)
Mon Sep 10 19:40:20 2001

Message-Id: <200109102340.TAA408861@oliver.mit.edu>
To: Ben <blout@MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
in-reply-to: <200109092312.TAA09864@buzzword-bingo.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 19:40:17 -0400
From: Nickolai Zeldovich <kolya@MIT.EDU>

Hi,

>      Starting sometime this summer, I am getting logged out of the dialups
>      without warning.

We believe this might be due to a bug in Solaris libc causing utmp
corruption.  An updated libc without this bug has been deployed to
the dialups now.  Let us know if you're still having such problems
(preferably including the dialup name and approximate logout time)
and we'll look at this further.

-- kolya

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