Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 17:06:02 +0100 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org> Cc: sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Minor problem with 64bTT: monthly accounting figures Message-ID: <20040301170602.A60183@newtrinity.zeist.de> In-Reply-To: <20040301150312.GQ35475@elvis.mu.org>; from mux@freebsd.org on Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 04:03:12PM %2B0100 References: <20040301145508.GA27240@seekingfire.com> <20040301150312.GQ35475@elvis.mu.org>
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On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 04:03:12PM +0100, Maxime Henrion wrote:
> Tillman Hodgson wrote:
> > Look a little odd this month:
> >
> > Subject: caliban.rospa.ca monthly run output
> >
> > Doing login accounting:
> > root 0.84
> > total -298848.27
> > toor -298849.12
> >
> > -- End of monthly output --
> >
> > Luckily this isn't a box where I care much about accounting, but a
> > Heads-Up in the conversion notes might be warranted.
> >
> > -T
>
> This is probably because the time is stored as a 32-bits integer in
> /var/run/utmp and /var/log/wtmp.
>
> from /usr/include/utmp.h :
>
> %%
> struct lastlog {
> int32_t ll_time;
> char ll_line[UT_LINESIZE];
> char ll_host[UT_HOSTSIZE];
> };
>
> struct utmp {
> char ut_line[UT_LINESIZE];
> char ut_name[UT_NAMESIZE];
> char ut_host[UT_HOSTSIZE];
> int32_t ut_time;
> };
> %%
>
> I think there is a utmpx pseudo-standard that could help with this
> problem. I also seem to remember someone was working on this but I have
> no idea where it's at nowadays.
>
Well, I see this on i386 (with 32bit time_t), too.
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