At 14:00 -0800 1999-03-21, Shane Wegner wrote:
Ok with regards to utmpd, when glibc 2.1 is upgraded to a later version of glibc 2.1 using dselect or apt, it stops and restarts utmpd. This seems to cause both utmpx and utmp files to be emptied and things like screen really don't work. Also, when root does a shutdown now to go down to single user, utmpd gets killed which is fine, the problem is, when the system comes back up, utmpd doesn't get restarted because it starts from /etc/rcS.d. Perhapse a shutdown now or init 1 shouldn't kill utmpd.
utmpd shouldn't be being restarted, it is intended to go away. It should be stopped and stay stopped.
-- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) <URL:http://web.espy.org/> <URL:mailto:jk@espy.org> <URL:mailto:espy@debian.org>