Re: Why does an ip resolving to Genuity appear in my /var/log/wtmp?

From: Barry Margolin (barmar@genuity.net)
Date: 01/24/03 

From: Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 15:40:07 GMT

In article <Tn2Y9.154658$pDv.107364@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com>,
mr.e <anjin@rogers.com> wrote:
>Why would xterm send "garbage" to /wtmp? Any suggestions about how I
>might have a closer look at just what is being sent to /wtmp?

My guess is it's putting something related to the Unix-domain socket in the
wtmp field where the remote host normally goes. Use 'od -c /var/log/wtmp'
to dump it and maybe it will make sense. 

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Barry Margolin, barmar@genuity.net
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