The following reply was made to PR bin/32903; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Hauke Fath <hf@spg.tu-darmstadt.de>
To: khym@azeotrope.org (Dave Huang)
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, i18rabbit@cwazy.co.uk
Subject: Re: bin/32903: utmp remains empty
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:16:57 +0100

 Am 24.02.2006 um 1:09 Uhr -0600 schrieb Dave Huang:
 >Sounds like your install is pretty messed up, including your NetBSD 2.x
 >install. Here's the /etc/group file from NetBSD 2.0; note that it has
 >a utmp group:
 
 Not quite.
 
 [hf@bounce] ~ > fgrep /var/log/wtmp /etc/mtree/*
 /etc/mtree/set.etc:./var/log/wtmp type=file uname=root gname=wheel 
 mode=0644 tags=,etc_pkg,
 /etc/mtree/set.etc:./var/log/wtmpx type=file uname=root gname=wheel 
 mode=0644 tags=,etc_pkg,
 /etc/mtree/special:./var/log/wtmp                       type=file 
 mode=0644 tags=exclude
 /etc/mtree/special:./var/log/wtmpx                      type=file 
 mode=0644 tags=exclude
 [hf@bounce] ~ > fgrep /var/log/last /etc/mtree/*
 /etc/mtree/set.etc:./var/log/lastlog type=file uname=root gname=wheel 
 mode=0664 tags=,etc_pkg,
 [hf@bounce] ~ > uname -a
 NetBSD bounce 2.1_STABLE NetBSD 2.1_STABLE (BOUNCE) #1: Wed Nov 23 
 16:15:00 CET 2005 
 hf@Heiligenberg:/var/obj/netbsd-builds/2_0/i386/sys/arch/i386/compile/BOUNCE 
 i386
 [hf@bounce] ~ >
 
 The ownership of /var/log/{lastlog,wtmp}{,x} changed to GID utmp with NetBSD 3.
 
 	hauke
 
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