From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Oct 7 23:21:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (relay.ucb.crimea.ua [212.110.138.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4698914CEC; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 23:20:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3/UCB) id JAA57552; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 09:17:57 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 09:17:57 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Gerald Pfeifer 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> Mail-Followup-To: Gerald Pfeifer , brian@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199910060946.CAA45328@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Gerald Pfeifer on Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 02:01:04AM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 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