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Date:      Mon, 6 Jan 1997 21:11:12 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: last command - wtmp changes?
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19970106211112.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199701060929.KAA00585@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>; from Christoph Kukulies on Jan 6, 1997 10:29:11 %2B0100
References:  <199701060929.KAA00585@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>

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As Christoph Kukulies wrote:

> Strange, when I login in as user 'kuku' in one of my machines
> I'm seeing the following picture:
> 
> bach> last kuku | head
> kuku             ttyp0    137.226.31.18    Mon Jan  6 10:10   still logged in
> kuku             ttyp0    137.226.31.18    Mon Jan  6 10:08 - 10:09  (00:00)
> kuku             ttyp0    137.226.31.18    Mon Jan  6 10:07 - 10:08  (00:01)
> kuku             ttyp0    gilberto         Sat Jan  4 21:42 - 21:43  (00:00)
> kuku             ttyp0    137.226.145.27   Fri Jan  3 10:12   still logged in
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This connection doesn't exist.

That only means the connection broke, but telnetd (or whatever it has
been) has ``forgotten'' to write the logout entry in wtmp.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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