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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
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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