[4962] in testers
Re: utmp, the file that wouldn't go away
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Tue Jul 10 01:36:01 2001
Message-Id: <200107100535.BAA23398@riff-raff.mit.edu>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Jul 2001 01:13:41 EDT."
<200107100513.BAA18595@bearing-an-hourglass.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 01:35:52 -0400
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
>> I noticed that a number of the 9.0 suns in the 37 cluster are whining
>> that they have utmp files. My current guess is that after we remove
>> it in the version script, it's getting re-created when the machine
>> shits down as part of rebooting into the miniroot.
Nice typo.
I'm not sure why this is happen, but I'll reiterate the feeling that
we should just nuke utmp and wtmp at boot time and maybe reactivate
time. If we clean this up in yet another version script, this will be
the third time we've dealt with the file, and I'd rather just deal with
the file for once and for all.
Garry
