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authored <ed@FreeBSD.org>2010-01-21 17:25:12 +0000
committered <ed@FreeBSD.org>2010-01-21 17:25:12 +0000
commitb28da9a61e28e861700fcb32723aff38ecdf76a5 (patch)
tree47f6d3342be9519d56146811f6d92bd8dadf99b0 /sbin/init
parentf79d0f71d84e1129afe418139af4233669d52f17 (diff)
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Remove stale references to utmp(5) and its corresponding filenames.
I removed utmp and its manpage, but not other manpages referring to it.
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/init')
-rw-r--r--sbin/init/init.820
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/init/init.8 b/sbin/init/init.8
index bd21b48..abf07ad 100644
--- a/sbin/init/init.8
+++ b/sbin/init/init.8
@@ -148,12 +148,9 @@ dies, either because the user logged out
or an abnormal termination occurred (a signal),
the
.Nm
-utility wakes up, deletes the user
-from the
-.Xr utmp 5
-file of current users and records the logout in the
-.Xr wtmp 5
-file.
+utility wakes up and records the logout in the the user accounting
+database (see
+.Xr getutxent 3 ).
The cycle is
then restarted by
.Nm
@@ -207,13 +204,6 @@ If a line is commented out or deleted from
.Xr ttys 5 ,
.Nm
will not do anything at all to that line.
-However, it will complain that the relationship between lines
-in the
-.Xr ttys 5
-file and records in the
-.Xr utmp 5
-file is out of sync,
-so this practice is not recommended.
.Pp
The
.Nm
@@ -316,9 +306,9 @@ system console device
.It Pa /dev/tty*
terminal ports found in
.Xr ttys 5
-.It Pa /var/run/utmp
+.It Pa /var/run/utx.active
record of current users on the system
-.It Pa /var/log/wtmp
+.It Pa /var/log/utx.log
record of all logins and logouts
.It Pa /etc/ttys
the terminal initialization information file
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