Re: Enormous utmp since mpsafetty

From: kevin <kevinxlinuz_at_163.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:44:55 +0800
Philip Paeps wrote:
> Has anyone else noticed that /var/run/utmp sometimes grows to insane sizes
> (998M) since mpsafetty?  I've been trying to pinpoint the culprit but I
> haven't been successful so far.
> 
> I don't think mpsafetty itself is to blame.  Rather something which expects
> our old tty system.
> 
> My original reaction was to blame screen, but I can't immediately see where it
> might be going wrong.
> 
> Mysterious.  Anyone have any ideas?
> 
>  - Philip
> 
Could you check the output of `last`?



Thanks,
kevin
Received on Tue Aug 26 2008 - 13:00:09 UTC

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