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Re: problems with RedHat-Athena

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (warlord@MIT.EDU)
Fri Aug 30 10:36:42 1996

From: warlord@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 10:36:00 -0400
To: Edwin Foo <efoo@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[1407] in SIPB_Linux_Development"

Hi,

> 2) strange things happening with who and finger not reporting correct
>    information. ghosts of previous users, etc... all happening only
>    with Athena account logins. No such problems with local accounts.
> 
> with regards to (2), I ran strings on /etc/athena/telnetd and found
> references to /usr/adm and /etc/utmp and /usr/adm/wtmp,  all of which
> don't exist... utmp is actually in /var/run/utmp and wtmp is actually
> in /var/log/wtmp (also is referenced as such somewhere in there, actually).

I think I fixed this.  Can you try the new ktelnet package?

	attach linux
	rpm -U /mit/linux/packages/RedHat/RPMS/i386/ktelnet-1.0-4.i386.rpm

This should fix the problem.

-derek

PS: On a side note, I also created a new misc package which includes
sendbug, synctree, and tellme.

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