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Re: FreeMiNT 1.14.7 locks up
On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 07:47:40PM -0600, Michael Hill wrote:
>As soon as MiNT initializes, it prints
>the following:
>
>MiNTOS Release 14 (BINARY) #1: Wed Aug 3 20:05:52 1994
>write_wtmp: file not found
>init: reboot: writing wtmp entry: file not found
>
>And then it locks up; reset required.
Brent Thirsk replied:
>As per Mintos docs: You must create wtmp file in this path. Mintos
>looks for it on startup. CD to var/adm,start elvis wtmp, create new file
>and save. you will be set. This file is required with init.
>it records logins and logouts. standard on unix type systems.
Juhani Sivusalo replied:
>or; "touch /var/adm/wtmp" and you have what you wanted. And check
>read/write permissions ... "chmod 644 /var/adm/wtmp" I dont know exactly
>what are righ attributes but "644" works for me.
I guess you didn't get to the following paragraph, where (I thought) I
made it abundantly clear that /var/adm/wtmp *DOES* exist.
>My question is, what's wrong? I've checked the sources, and can't find
>any trace of write_wtmp in the files in the Source directory. I have the
>standard mint.cnf (from the binary distribution), with a few sln's and
>setenv's, a single INIT definition, and that's about it. /var/adm/wtmp,
>u:\var\adm\wtmp, and g:\var\adm\wtmp all refer to the same file, so I
>don't think it should be complaining that the wtmp file doesn't exist.
Any other ideas?
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