Hi,
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Jacob Robert Wilkins wrote:
> My wtmp seems to be corrupt since I upgraded. I nulled it out and let
> it restart, but the last command is still showing some bad entries.
>
> I'm seeing partial hostnames listed as users, and bad time stamps.
>
> Any ideas?
The format of the wtmp format has changed, I guess due to the switch to
glibc2. I noticed the same when I upgraded my machine at home.
I just did the following:
# cat /dev/null > /var/log/wtmp
The system will then start a new wtmp file.
Bye,
LenZ
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