Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 09:11:58 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: a last word on last Message-ID: <199701140811.JAA11616@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970113232920.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Jan 13, 97 11:29:20 pm"
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> As Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > > > You can also use src/tools/3.0-upgrade/cvs-wtmp. > > > > I did that a couple of times and either cvs-wtmp barfed at > > some entries or it didn't work for some other reasons. > > Have you tried the `force' switch of the most recent version? Thanks for pointing that out. I presently don't have anymore 'old' wtmp files to convert :-) > > > I know that the wtmp/utmp issues have been discussed widely but > > a clearing word on this issue would really be helpful. What is the idea > > to cope with this problem? > > The idea for the final solution has been floating around here, and was > commonly accepted: all the utmp/wtmp handling stuff should be isolated > in libutil (it is already mostly), and no application should ever need > to include <utmp.h> again (login(3) is still failing this API > requirement). > > There's already one positive side-effect of this discussion: i finally > (after more than 10 years of existance?) wrote the man pages for > libutil. ;-) > > Once this has been done, and the major packages and third-party > software actually uses it, we can do with utmp whatever we want, we > can convert it into dBase format :), make it a record structure, or > what else might be the most rationale format. > > Needless to say, somebody needs to do all this. I have the feeling > that David Nugent (hi Dave :) feels compelled to work in this area... Fine. Thanks for explaining. I built XFree86 yesterday BTW, to have all X apps in new shape because these odd entries were creeping in into my last output. This happened when I was sitting at the console using X yesterday for the whole day so it's probably xterm/color_xterm. BTW, is color_xterm gone from port/x11 now and is xterm the full replacement for this (as Satoshi (?) mentioned earlier)? > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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