From benjamin at py-soft.co.uk  Thu Jul 12 03:32:56 2007
From: benjamin at py-soft.co.uk (Benjamin Donnachie)
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:32:56 +0100
Subject: [cAos] cAos-2 and corrupt /var/run/utmp
Message-ID: <46960358.8080908@py-soft.co.uk>


I'm running cAos-2 on my server and the command w just gave me the
following output:

# w
 11:24:38 up 139 days, 15:56, 10 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00
USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
        null     -                21Apr72 139days 372days   ?    -
benjamin pts/4    192.168.57.1     11:24    0.00s  0.14s  0.29s sshd:
benjamin_
        null     -                25Apr74 139days  0.14s   ?    -
         null     -                12:25   139days  0.14s   ?    -
        null     -                04:28   139days  0.14s   ?    -
        null     -                16:18   139days  0.14s   ?    -
H     null     -                01Jan70 139days  0.14s   ?    -
         pts/4    -                12:25    0.00s  0.14s   ?    -
        pts/4    -                29Sep04  0.00s  0.14s   ?    -
8ull     -                01Jan70 139days  0.14s   ?    -


I haven't got any time to look into at the moment and have just zapped
/var/run/utmp for now.  Is the above likely to be indicative of a
serious underlying problem?  ps waux doesn't show anything suspicious.

I would reboot but I've managed to reach 140 days of up-time since
replacing my UPS batteries and I'm hoping to get at least a full year! :-)))

Take care,

Ben