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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 10:33:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Grossniklaus Bruno <grossnik DOT mailinglists AT bluewin DOT ch>
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Subject: Re: ProFTPD 1.2.9rc2: "missing /var/log/wtmp"
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On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Grossniklaus Bruno wrote:

> Hello Igor
>
> >/var/log/wtmp should be created by the cygutils package postinstall
>
> cygutils does not have a postinstall script (?)

Oops, you're right.  It used to, though, back in 2002, and that's what I
found on my system...  Apparently, nothing else attempts to create
/var/log/wtmp, though.  I wonder why Chuck decided to ditch the
postinstall script?  In any case, as I said before, /var/log/wtmp should
be created ('touch'ed, most likely) by the packages that need it.

> $ cygcheck.exe -c | grep cygu
> cygutils             1.2.1-2            OK

FYI, you can use "cygcheck -cd | grep cygu" to greatly speed up the
process...
	Igor
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