From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 12 23:55:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (relay.ucb.crimea.ua [212.110.138.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD16414F10 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 23:54:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3/UCB) id JAA35936; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 09:53:14 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 09:53:14 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: "Sean T. Lamont .lost." Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.X last? Message-ID: <19991013095314.A31708@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: "Sean T. Lamont .lost." , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199910121954.MAA92994@itchy.serv.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <199910121954.MAA92994@itchy.serv.net>; from Sean T. Lamont .lost. on Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 12:54:26PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 12:54:26PM -0700, Sean T. Lamont .lost. wrote: > > It seems that the wtmp format has changed as of 3.0 but that the > 'last' program hasn't. As a result, it's largely useless. > > Has anyone fixed this problem, or is it up to me? > > Sean T. Lamont, CTO / Chief NetNerd, Abstract Software, Inc. (ServNet) > Seattle - Bellingham - Vancouver - Portland - Everett - Tacoma - Bremerton > email: lamont@abstractsoft.com WWW: http://www.serv.net > "...There's no moral, it's just a lot of stuff that happens". - H. Simpson > 1. As someone else said, you can zap your wtmp file 2. Alternatively, you can convert it to a new format by the cvt-wtmp tool, which could be found in /usr/src/tools/3.0-upgrade/ directory. HTH, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message