Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 11:01:12 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Pritchard <mpp> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: a last word on last Message-ID: <199701121901.LAA11130@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970112184113.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jan 12, 97 06:41:13 pm
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J Wunsch wrote: > > As Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > > But piping the last command to anything, be it 'more' or 'head' > > gives totally garbled output. Fields contain garbage and seem to be > > shifted by one postition. > > > > Can anyone confirm this? > > Not confirmed. `last -10' and `last | head' produce exactly the same > output for me. Didn't the wtmp file format just change recently (for longer user names?)? I would suggest zeroing out wtmp and seeing what happens. -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.org "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"
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