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>Number:         1941
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       wtmp and monthly rotation
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Nov  1 11:50:01 PST 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     William A Gill
>Organization:
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386
>Environment:

	FreeBSD duchess.wagill.com 2.1.5-RELEASE
	FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE #0: Thu Sep  5 00:21:50 PDT 1996
	root@duchess.wagill.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/DUCHESS  i386

>Description:

	Log-in/log-out information in /var/log/wtmp is not kept across month boudaries; meaning that if a user logs in on say 31 October and logs out on 1 November, and the monthly cron run file rotation takes place in between, then the record for that user in October's wtmp file (now wtmp.0) will not reflect the user's log-out in November, and neither will the November (current) wtmp file.

>How-To-Repeat:

	Log-in before the end of a given month, and log-out in the next month.

>Fix:
	
	Is this a bug?  Or is this a "feature"?  In either case, it would be nice to have complete login/logout information in /var/log/wtmp.

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: