{uw}tmp
Jon LaBadie
jcyg@jgcomp.com
Thu Jul 11 08:49:00 GMT 2002
Couple of observations concerning the utmp and wtmp files
Are they problems known, or just the way it works.
- last looks to /var/log/wtmp
- login/rlogin/telnet update /var/log/wtmp
- who looks to /var/run/utmp
- seems to work ok if /var/run/utmp and /var/log/wtmp are linked
- rxvt, with the --loginShell and +ut options update neither file
- last does not show previous logins, only active ones
- utmpdump shows mostly empty fields for previous logins
- od -c confirms the information in those fields has been null'ed out (\0's)
- utmpdump has no man page
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Jon H. LaBadie jcyg@jgcomp.com
JG Computing
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Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
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