hi, from reiserfs it`s known to happen quite often - wtmp may be corrupted; but actually I`m using only ext2/3 on the test machine. After 7 days running the RH8 system I`ve noticed the first corruption of wtmp. last shows only the line wtmp begins Wed Dec 11 09:14:52 2002 and /usr/sbin/dump-utmp wtmp spits out the history, e.g. the last line |Sun Dec 15 14:36:34 2002 ithum |:0 |7|:0 |20487|136.46.1.64 | I do not have any idea whether this unknown IP address may be a successful hacker attack or not. Or is the corruption the fault of the ext3 filesystem? Despite that I`d like to know if there is any way of painless repair of wtmp (like wtmpfix on AIX, True64). Hexedit shows me a bit garbage (?), but my tries to repair the file have not been successful until now. thanks for any help -- . ___ | | Irmund Thum | | _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
