On Sep 24,  9:30pm, smb@cs.columbia.edu ("Steven M. Bellovin") wrote:
-- Subject: Re: messages from init

| On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 01:18:24 +0000 (UTC), christos@astron.com (Christos
| Zoulas) wrote:
| 
| > In article <20060924201851.280c509e.smb@cs.columbia.edu>,
| > Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
| > >I received the following messages from init after upgrading to 4.99.3
| > >from this afternoon:
| > >
| > >Sep 24 20:09:17 berkshire init: can't add utmpx record for runlevel
| > >Sep 24 20:09:17 berkshire init: can't add utmpx record for port system boot
| > >Sep 24 20:09:17 berkshire init: can't add utmpx record for port system down
| > >Sep 24 20:09:17 berkshire init: can't add utmpx record for runlevel
| > >Sep 24 20:09:17 berkshire init: can't add utmpx record for port console
| > >Sep 24 20:09:17 berkshire init: can't add utmpx record for port ttyE1
| > >Sep 24 20:09:17 berkshire init: can't add utmpx record for port ttyE2
| > >Sep 24 20:09:17 berkshire init: can't add utmpx record for port ttyE3
| > >
| > >Was I supposed to have tweaked something?  I see nothing in UPDATING
| > >saying what to do.
| > 
| > Does who -a show these entries?
| > 
| No.

Ok, something must be different in my startup code because my init can
write them... I will look some more.

christos