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- From: venaas@flipper.pvv.unit.no (Stig Venaas)
- Subject: Re: broken pipe after reboot
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.084246.17803@ugle.unit.no>
- Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
- Organization: ProgramVareVerkstedet - UNIT
- References: <1992Nov11.92749.21717@ms.uky.edu> <1992Nov11.165629.1421@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 08:42:46 GMT
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- The reason for the broken pipe errors when you try to reboot, is that
- utmp isn't always updated when people log out. You will see this
- if you take who. When you try to reboot, reboot tries to write
- messages to people who are logged out, and you get broken pipes.
-
- When I reboot, I first do
- rm /etc/utmp ; touch /etc/utmp
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- Stig
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