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Date:      Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:25:08 +0100
From:      Cillian Sharkey <cillian@baker.ie>
To:        Frank Rocholl <fr@icsmedia.de>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Strange characters of "last" after upgrade to 3.2 Release
Message-ID:  <37BD5734.B3419BAE@baker.ie>
References:  <01BACE0D6FA9D21198CC00A0C94D131D0FF7C2@note.icsmedia.de>

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> I´ve upgrade last night my FreeBSD-2.2.2 to FreeBSD-2.2.8 and
> finally to
> FreeBSD-3.2 via the  binary method.
> Now there is a strange behaviour of the  "w" and "last" commands.
> For example the output of last looks like:
> vx3.tel^z(^}7ttyp ppp-1-5. 4                Sat Jul 23 16:58
> still logged in
> ppp-1-5.cvx3.tel ftp      A'^}7ftp80296     Thu Jan  1 01:00
> still logged in
> frro             ttyp3    media.deu"^}7ftp8 Fri Oct 30 04:27
> still logged in
> ttyp3            a.deI ^}7                  Fri Aug 20 11:30
> still logged in

read the following file:
/usr/src/tools/3.0-upgrade/README

basically the format of the utmp element in the wtmp file changed in 3.0+
there's a c program there that will convert your old ones
(or you could just nuke them :)

Regards,
Cillian


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