Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 13:50:55 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, max@sfc.wide.ad.jp Subject: Re: date change and wtmp record Message-ID: <199605062050.NAA21864@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199605060704.JAA05118@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at May 6, 96 09:04:09 am
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> > Hmnmmm, several people responded to my question and told me that
> > they have '{'.
> > So, I changed the date to see what happens to my wtmp:
> >
> > % last date
> > date } Mon May 6 09:41 still logged in
> > date | Mon May 6 09:42
>
> Strange. This part of /usr/src/bin/date/date.c is responsible for the
> wtmp record:
>
> /* set the time */
> if (nflag || netsettime(tval)) {
> logwtmp("|", "date", "");
> tv.tv_sec = tval;
> tv.tv_usec = 0;
> if (settimeofday(&tv, (struct timezone *)NULL))
> err(1, "settimeofday (timeval)");
> logwtmp("{", "date", "");
> ^^^
> }
>
> Btw., your ``still logged in'' is also bogus (most likely out of
> `last' not recognizing the ``}'' as a special token), mine looks like:
>
> date { Sun May 5 16:15
> date | Sun May 5 16:14
What is your date-stamping program? I must assume it is not standard,
or it would have hard-coded the value from the man page (bletch).
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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