From b08f4096533577934b885fa9df41d3881d141612 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:26:52 +0000
Subject: Initial XML commit

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+<sect2>
+<title>Creating the /var/run/utmp, /var/log/wtmp and /var/log/btmp 
+files</title>
+
+<para>
+Programs like login, shutdown, uptime and others want to read from and write
+to the /var/run/utmp /var/log/btmp and /var/log/wtmp. These files contain 
+information about who is currently logged in. It also contains information 
+on when the computer was last booted and shutdown and a record of the
+bad login attemps.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Create these files with their proper permissions by running the
+following commands:
+</para>
+
+<blockquote><literallayout>
+
+	<userinput>touch /var/run/utmp /var/log/wtmp /var/log/btmp
+		/var/log/lastlog &amp;&amp;</userinput>
+	<userinput>chmod 644 /var/run/utmp /var/log/wtmp /var/log/btmp
+		/var/log/lastlog</userinput>
+
+</literallayout></blockquote>
+
+</sect2>
+
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