On 2008-08-26 22:44:55 (+0800), kevin <kevinxlinuz_at_163.com> wrote: > 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? > > Could you check the output of `last`? The output of last looks sane... last checks wtmp though, not utmp, if I'm not mistaken? Interestingly, strings on utmp only shows the records I expect to be there. The rest of the file seems to be filled with zeros. Very strange. - Philip -- Philip Paeps Please don't Cc me, I am philip_at_freebsd.org subscribed to the list. Artists are more used to drawing with things like pens than with mice. Maybe Damien Hirst has found a way of being artistic with mice that I haven't heard of... -- Peter KennyReceived on Wed Aug 27 2008 - 07:15:14 UTC
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