From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 27 07:28:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA26414 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 07:28:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA26409 Tue, 27 Feb 1996 07:28:20 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199602271528.HAA26409@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: Host localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: "Joseph D. Orthoefer" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wtmp stuff In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Feb 1996 09:54:16 GMT." Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 07:28:19 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >I have some time accounting info being dumped to a wtmp format file. >"last" and "ac" don't agree what days an individual was logged in or how >long they were logged in. Does anyone have experience with this? Any >fixes? My initial guess is that it may have to do with some logouts not >being logged, but I haven't looked at it too closely. > >Thanks for any help, > >Joseph D. Orthoefer What release? last was modified a little while ago to be faster, and its man page was updated to list how it handles missing logouts. It may be that ac differs in its algorithm so it prints out different information. -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================