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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: date change and wtmp record
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 13:50:55 -0700 (MST)
Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, max@sfc.wide.ad.jp
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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