edwin@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer) (03/12/90)
I did the upgrade to 7.0 on our HP9000/370 (a cluster server with 30 diskless clients) last weekend and I'd like to make HP a compliment: doing the upgrade was a real pleasure, you guys at HP did a great job! If you haven't done the upgrade yet, it's hard to tell what makes it so smooth, but allow me to pick this tiny detail: as the update notes tell you, the format of the "{b,u,w}tmp" files has changed. During the update, the 6.5 version of these files are nicely converted to the new 7.0 format. I can easily think of another vendor who would handle such as: "The format of the utmp/wtmp files had changed. Please remove old versions of these files and re-create them with the right permissions." ;-) ;-) [Note: the ";-)"'s are most obviously not added by the vendor] By the way, talking about the new utmp format: I appreciate the "ut_host" field in struct utmp, but why doesn't "who" show it to you???? (I did RTFM and I also tried all options to "who", but... and YES, there were really some remote logins and YES, an "od /etc/utmp" showed that the entry actually contained a host name...) thanks for your time, --[ Edwin ]-- -- Edwin Kremer (SysAdm), Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands Telephone: +31-30-534104 | UUCP: ...!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!edwin Telefax : +31-30-513791 | Email: edwin@cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5]