Rebuilding wtmp

[Kyle Mott]

Nevermind, I figured it out. I needed to rebuild ssh. Thanks everyone.

 
 
-Kyle Mott

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: aardvark [mailto:aardvark at saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 4:40 PM
> To: Kyle Mott
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Rebuilding wtmp
> 
> Kyle Mott disturbed my sleep to write:
> > I read a few manpages and did some google'ing, and couldn't find
much of
> > anything about rebuilding wtmp. I tried just moving wtmp to wtmp.old
and
> > then doing 'touch wtmp', then logging out and back in, but it still
> > reads 31Dec69. Is there some way to fix this? Thanks all.
> 
> It's possible that there's some process holding open wtmp.  (You could
> check this by adding lsof ("list open files") from ports -- *very*
handy
> to have around on general principle).  If this is the case, probably
> the easiest way to fix things would be to rename the file, touch wtmp,
> then reboot.
> 
> Interestingly enough, a Google for "wtmp freebsd" turned up this
message
> from the FreeBSD-Security list:
> 
> 	http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/freebsd/2001-07/0055.html
> 
> which suggests "cp /dev/null /var/log/wtmp" to fix things -- at least
on
> Solaris.
> 
> I am now blessing your keyboard...
> 
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