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- From: jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid)
- Subject: Re: broken pipe after reboot
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.093637.1133@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 09:36:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov12.084246.17803@ugle.unit.no> venaas@flipper.pvv.unit.no (Stig Venaas) writes:
- >When I reboot, I first do
- >rm /etc/utmp ; touch /etc/utmp
-
- ummm... I think you also want to chmod 766 /etc/utmp.
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- Not to be picky, but I forget to do that all the time... and
- tend confuse many people... (including myself).
-
- otherwise it will say something along the lines of
- Error: can't write utmp file. or probably nothing quite so clear
- (its 4:30am here; my memory is shot)...
-
- jem.
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