Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 09:17:57 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> Cc: brian@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/14150: /usr/binlast does not accept input from stdin nor does it process .gz files Message-ID: <19991008091757.E54236@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9910062256290.15508-100000@markab.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>; from Gerald Pfeifer on Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 02:01:04AM %2B0200 References: <199910060946.CAA45328@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.GSO.4.10.9910062256290.15508-100000@markab.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
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On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 02:01:04AM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > 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? > Perhaps you? :-) -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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