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Date:      Sun, 12 Dec 1999 12:55:32 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jackson Donadel <fatboy@linuxbr.com.br>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: last
Message-ID:  <199912121755.MAA60106@server.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <000901bf4485$07b67380$c800000a@jackson.br.cahn.net>

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On 12-Dec-99 Jackson Donadel wrote:
> When i analising the last results
> 
> this 2 entries appear
> 
> what mean crash in this case?(reboot?, shutdown?)
> 
> root             ttyv0                     Sat Oct  9 18:26 - crash  (02:55)
> jackson          ttyv1                     Sat Oct  9 18:24 - crash  (02:57)

The machine was turned off or rebooted without using the halt, reboot, or
shutdown commands.  Thus, these users were never logged out.  When the system
came back up, it found that it thought that these two users were still logged
in.  In that case, it assumes that the machine crashed while they were logged
in and adds those entries to indicate that.

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