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Subject: Re: date change and wtmp record
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> > Pipe the output to "hexdump" and see if you get "7b" ('{') or "7d"
> > ('}').  I'm still not satisfied that it isn't your font.
> 
>      Ok, here's the output:
> 
> % last date | head -1
> date      }                         Wed May  8 19:59   still logged in
> % last date |head -1 | od -h
> 0000000     6164    6574    2020    2020    2020    207d    2020    2020
> 0000020     2020    2020    2020    2020    2020    2020    2020    2020
> 0000040     2020    2020    6557    2064    614d    2079    3820    3120
> 0000060     3a39    3935    2020    7320    6974    6c6c    6c20    676f
> 0000100     6567    2064    6e69    000a                                
> 0000107
> %
> 
>      So, it really is '}'.  At least `last' command sees it as '}' and
> so it shows 'still logged in' as someone pointed out earlier.

In line 220 of /src/bin/date/date.c:


	/* set the time */
	if (nflag || netsettime(tval)) {
		logwtmp("|", "date", "");
		tv.tv_sec = tval;
		tv.tv_usec = 0;
		if (settimeofday(&tv, (struct timezone *)NULL))
			err(1, "settimeofday (timeval)");
********	logwtmp("{", "date", "");
	}

It is clearly a '{'.

This assumes you are using the standard "date" command to set your date.

Check your date command dource code.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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