Re: wtmp locking problem (was: Re: SOLVED: Erk! Something is *really* wrong here!)

1997-03-20 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
> Now this IS the answer. I just downgraded one of my systems to sysvinit > 2.69-1, rebooted, and the corruption seems to be gone. Few weeks ago, my corruption occured with sysvinit-2.69-1. I have been having this same package since December 8. For some unknown reason, few weeks ago my wtmp _s

Re: wtmp locking problem (was: Re: SOLVED: Erk! Something is *really* wrong here!)

1997-03-08 Thread Craig Sanders
On 8 Mar 1997, Guy Maor wrote: > Karl Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I agree. I've got login 1.45a-3 installed and the problem hasn't appeared > > - it's definately a problem in the rex-fixed/binary/base and bo/binary/base > > because if I dpkg -i *.deb in either directory the probl

Re: wtmp locking problem (was: Re: SOLVED: Erk! Something is *really* wrong here!)

1997-03-08 Thread Joey Hess
Craig Sanders: > > On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Joey Hess wrote: > > > This doesn't explain why the problems have only started occurring in > > the past few days. I've been using the same set A/set B mix for many > > months, and only started getting corruption this week. Something must > > have changed, a

Re: wtmp locking problem (was: Re: SOLVED: Erk! Something is *really* wrong here!)

1997-03-08 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Joey Hess wrote: > This doesn't explain why the problems have only started occurring in > the past few days. I've been using the same set A/set B mix for many > months, and only started getting corruption this week. Something must > have changed, and that should be fixed. log

Re: wtmp locking problem (was: Re: SOLVED: Erk! Something is *really* wrong here!)

1997-03-07 Thread Joey Hess
Craig Sanders: > the more i think of it, the more it seems that there's a conflict > between "Set A" and "Set B" login-related programs. > > "Set A" includes mgetty, telnet, getty, and other programs which call > /bin/login. "Set B" includes ssh and wu-ftpd and other programs which do > their own

Re: wtmp locking problem (was: Re: SOLVED: Erk! Something is *really* wrong here!)

1997-03-07 Thread Craig Sanders
On 6 Mar 1997, Guy Maor wrote: > Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > mgetty and telnet/ssltelnet trigger it because they call login. ssh > > & wu-ftpd don't trigger it because they don't call login - they do > > their own thing. is that right? > > Correct. the more i think of it, th

wtmp locking problem (was: Re: SOLVED: Erk! Something is *really* wrong here!)

1997-03-06 Thread Craig Sanders
(cross-posted to debian-user because there's a thread on this problem in there too) On 5 Mar 1997, Guy Maor wrote: > It's a locking problem. From login's changelog: > > Version 1.45a (16-Dec-96) > [...] > Changed the wtmp locking scheme in login.c,agetty.c,simpleinit.c >