From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 15 15:24:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA13089 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 15:24:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA13009 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 15:22:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA07324; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 18:22:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA25129; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 18:24:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 18:24:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Joerg Wunsch cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8 character login limit?! In-Reply-To: <199610152037.WAA13534@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 15 Oct 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > As Doug White wrote: > > > Then let's build a doc on how to do this. > > > > 1. What does doing this BREAK? > > - NIS > > last(1). You gotta throw away your old wtmp files, or leave the old > last command as olast, or gotta build a tool that converts the wtmp > files. Of course, the longer one sticks with the current format, the more wtmp files would be made unreadable by some future change... ;) -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk