Probably it's nothing but I know for sure my utmp file got corrupted when my /var partition got full after the guys here at the office sent lots of e-mails with large attachments.
I just started over with a zero length utmp and everything went fine. E.- > OK, which log file gets corrupted - the wtmp or the utmp file? Or both? > I've heard reports about corrupted utmp files, and I'll try to fix that in > 2.71 > > >I run mgetty for the dialin lines, I hooked up a vt100 terminal to a serial > >port on a different machine with 2.70-1 and used plain getty (well, really > >agetty in disguise) and found the exact same thing - if I downgrade, it > >works a treat. > > Oh great, you can reproduce it. Can you tell me > > 1. which logfile gets corrupted > 2. When (before login, during session, after logout) -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9430323 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .