Re: FreeMiNT 1.14.7 locks up

[Juhani Sivusalo <jasivu@na.netppl.fi>]

On Thu, 28 May 1998, Brent Thirsk wrote:

> > 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

> 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.

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.

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