Subject: Re: lastlogx inappropriate format?
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@tac.gw.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/29/2005 12:50:38
In article <1112122532.23536.3.camel@dawn.home.network>,
Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>[ this is about netbsd-3, but it may still happen in current... and
> anyway, the branch hasn't diverged so much yet ]
>
>I've NetBSD 3.0_BETA in two boxes: in one of them, I installed the
>system from scratch. In the other one, it was just an update from
>2.99.16 or so.
>
>But in both machines I can see the following messages (appearing in the
>console and authlog):
>
>Mar 27 23:46:20 sun sshd[8372]: Could not update /var/log/lastlogx:
>Inappropriate file type or format
>[...]
>Mar 29 06:42:58 dawn login: Cannot update lastlogx Inappropriate file
>type or format
>
>Is something broken in the branch?
>
rm /var/log/lastlogx
touch /var/log/lastlogx
christos