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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Differences in wtmp file format between FBSD and BSDI Date: 18 Oct 1996 10:19:46 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <547lk2$830@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <53rl7h$jpo@nntp.igs.net> <543n36$p67@newsbr.eunet.fr> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5148 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:29601 fgm@osinet.fr (Frederic MARAND) wrote: > >Does anyone know if there is a difference in the format of the wtmp > >files between FBSD 2.1.5 and BSDI 2.1? I'm setting up a web server > I suggest you take a long deep look at <sys/utmp.h> where the file > formats for all such files are defined (at least on other Unixes, I > hope it's the same for *BSD). If a difference exists between the two, > you should be able to find it here easily. I've heard that BSD/OS allows for usernames longer than the classic 8 characters. If this is true, there's your difference between the wtmp formats. UT_NAMESIZE is the interesting constant. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j