From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 12 13:34:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [205.153.153.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B823714C0A for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 13:34:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zeno@itchy.serv.net) Received: from itchy (itchy.serv.net [205.153.153.233]) by mx.serv.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id NAA23710; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 13:34:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 13:34:05 -0700 (PDT) From: "Sean T. Lamont .lost." Reply-To: lamont@abstractsoft.com To: Jonathan Chen Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.X last? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, 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? > > Zap /var/log/wtmp. ie: > > cp /dev/null /var/log/wtmp > > It'll work from then on. Actually, it didn't. 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message