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Date:      Sun, 12 Jan 1997 11:01:12 -0800 (PST)
From:      Mike Pritchard <mpp>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: a last word on last
Message-ID:  <199701121901.LAA11130@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970112184113.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jan 12, 97 06:41:13 pm

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J Wunsch wrote:
> 
> As Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> 
> > But piping the last command to anything, be it 'more' or 'head'
> > gives totally garbled output. Fields contain garbage and seem to be
> > shifted by one postition.
> > 
> > Can anyone confirm this?
> 
> Not confirmed.  `last -10' and `last | head' produce exactly the same
> output for me.

Didn't the wtmp file format just change recently (for longer user names?)?  
I would suggest zeroing out wtmp and seeing what happens.
-- 
Mike Pritchard
mpp@FreeBSD.org
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