Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 02:01:04 +0200 (MET DST) From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> To: brian@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/14150: /usr/binlast does not accept input from stdin nor does it process .gz files Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9910062256290.15508-100000@markab.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <199910060946.CAA45328@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 6 Oct 1999 brian@freebsd.org wrote: > Synopsis: /usr/binlast does not accept input from stdin nor does it process .gz files > > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > State-Changed-By: brian > State-Changed-When: Wed Oct 6 02:44:36 PDT 1999 > State-Changed-Why: > Adding gzip capabilities to last would be considered extraneous to most. > I'd suggest the originator removes the Z from the wtmp line in newsyslog.conf Adding gzip capabilities was just one of the suggestions, allowing for zcat some.file.gz | last was the second one. Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> kindly provided me some details why this would require quite some rewrite of /usr/bin/last, but I don't really see why this is sufficient to simply close the GNATS report. Perhaps anyone might work on that in the future? Gerald -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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