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Date:      Wed, 13 Oct 1999 09:53:14 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
To:        "Sean T. Lamont   .lost." <zeno@serv.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.X last?
Message-ID:  <19991013095314.A31708@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>
In-Reply-To: <199910121954.MAA92994@itchy.serv.net>; from Sean T. Lamont   .lost. on Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 12:54:26PM -0700
References:  <199910121954.MAA92994@itchy.serv.net>

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On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 12:54:26PM -0700, Sean T. Lamont   .lost. wrote:
> 
> It seems that the wtmp format has changed as of 3.0 but that the
> 'last' program hasn't. As a result, it's largely useless.
> 
> Has anyone fixed this problem, or is it up to me?
> 
> Sean T. Lamont, CTO / Chief NetNerd, Abstract Software, Inc. (ServNet)  
> Seattle - Bellingham - Vancouver - Portland - Everett - Tacoma - Bremerton
> email: lamont@abstractsoft.com              WWW:  http://www.serv.net
> "...There's no moral, it's just a lot of stuff that happens". - H. Simpson
> 
1. As someone else said, you can zap your wtmp file
2. Alternatively, you can convert it to a new format by the cvt-wtmp tool,
   which could be found in /usr/src/tools/3.0-upgrade/ directory.

HTH,
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