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Date:      Sat, 7 Dec 1996 21:19:23 +0300 (MSK)
From:      =?KOI8-R?Q?Andrey_Chernov=2C_=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= <ache@nagual.ru>
To:        michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/include utmp.h
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.961207211805.1064B-100000@nagual.ru>
In-Reply-To: <199612071736.EAA06776@asstdc.scgt.oz.au>

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On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, michael butler wrote:

> Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
> 
> >    One of these upgrade-time actions could, in this case, be the
> >    migration of your wtmp file for instance.
>  
> Personally, I'm in favour of a migratory program even if only for wtmp
> conversion since some of us use the accumulated data for customer
> accounting,

If we plan to add new fields like hostid, even no migratory program
is possible. Best migratory program is 

cp /dev/null /var/log/utmp
cp /dev/null /var/log/wtmp

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
<ache@nagual.ru>
http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/




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