Re: Fixing a corrupt utmp

["Reuben D. Budiardja" <reubendb innovativethought com>]

On Monday 31 March 2003 03:01 pm, David Busby wrote:
> I had this happen and I fixed it by doing this:
>
> Kick everyone off the machine, with only one user do
>
> cat /dev/null > /var/run/utmp
> logout
>
> Then login again...
> `who` should report correct information

That does it. 
Thanks.

RDB


> /B
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Reuben D. Budiardja" <reubendb innovativethought com>
> To: <redhat-list redhat com>
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 08:56
> Subject: Fixing a corrupt utmp
>
> > Hello,
> > Anyone knows how to fix a corrupted utmp files? Reboot most likely fix
> > it,
>
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