Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 21:03:51 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: mpp@freefall.freebsd.org (Mike Pritchard) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: a last word on last Message-ID: <199701122003.VAA01205@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199701121901.LAA11130@freefall.freebsd.org> from Mike Pritchard at "Jan 12, 97 11:01:12 am"
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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. Well, I zeroed wtmp/utmp several times in the past and the problem came back. This may because of the various changes to the wtmp/utmp thing. Anyway, yes, it looks ok now after deleting/touching wtmp/utmp again. Though some entries will have to accumulate still to get a better picture. > -- > Mike Pritchard > mpp@FreeBSD.org > "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn" > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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