From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Aug 30 07:52:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA20589 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 07:52:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA20568 for ; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 07:51:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id QAA17368 for ; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 16:51:53 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.6/brasil-1.2) with UUCP id QAA20837 for freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 16:51:50 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.7/keltia-uucp-2.9) id QAA04645; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 16:47:49 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970830164749.60401@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 16:47:49 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange login accounting in monthly run output References: <3.0.1.16.19970805212518.08cfbc12@mail.inba.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.76 In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.16.19970805212518.08cfbc12@mail.inba.fr>; from Philippe SCHACK on Tue, Aug 05, 1997 at 09:25:18PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#3592 AMD-K6 MMX @ 208 MHz Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Philippe SCHACK: > On some servers, I have the user 'date' listed in the login accounting > every month. There is no /bin/date in /etc/passwd. From where doe's it come ? Do you have either a crontab entry with date in it or you're using some program that does set the date. Each time one runs "date something" to set the date, it is logged into wtmp. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #29: Tue Aug 26 21:05:09 CEST 1997