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From: roberto@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: more on 3.0's utmp (?)
Date: 14 Feb 1997 08:21:19 GMT
Organization: Eurocontrol EEC, Bretigny, France
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In article <5dvh9o$h1t$2@news.ziplink.net>,
Mikhail Teterin <mi@ALDAN.ziplink.net..remove-after-`net'> wrote:
> I thought, utmp access is going through some standard functions, which
> reside in shared libraries, which were replaced by the ``make World''.
>
> I guess I was wrong...
Some programs like tcsh, GNU finger and others have knowledge of the siez
of the utmp record so when they try to read or write it, they lose...
Remember to recompile XDM/xterm as well.
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Ollivier ROBERT -=- Eurocontrol EEC/TS -=- Ollivier.Robert@eurocontrol.fr
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