Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 13:47:57 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> To: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: llimport(8): Import lastlog into utmpx Message-ID: <BANLkTinYVAEZARfVTTCCF3taitYsbQJFFw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110603204358.GC50646@hoeg.nl> References: <20110603204358.GC50646@hoeg.nl>
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On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> wrote: > Hi all, > > I think not long after I replaced utmp with utmpx, I got requests to add > utilities to convert the old utmp databases to the new formats. I added > wtmpcvt(1) for /var/log/wtmp*, but I didn't add any tools for the other > databases. Even though it's a bit overdue (more than one year later?), I > think it wouldn't be a bad idea to add a utility to import lastlog for > people who are going to upgrade from 7.x/8.x to 9.0. > > I've written a utility called llimport(8), which imports entries from > lastlog into utx.lastlogin for users which do not already have an entry > in the latter. I've also added an rc-script, which executes llimport > when /var/log/lastlog is present and renames the old database to > /var/log/lastlog.old. > > Any objections if I commit the following patch to HEAD one of these > days? I will remove it from HEAD not long after we release 9.0, since an > upgrade from 8.x to 10.x should go through 9.x anyway. > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0http://80386.nl/pub/llimport.txt > > It would be nice if someone could look at the rc script. I think it > should be okay, but it's not a part of the tree I'm familiar with. Is this a one time change? If so, wouldn't it make more sense to put this into mergemaster(8) instead of rc(5)? Thanks! -Garrett
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