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From: Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET>
To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: last in -current
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On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, J Wunsch wrote:

> As Veggy Vinny wrote:
> 
> > 	Also, another problem with -current is last doesn't work
> > correctly...
> > 
> > 34.98.181        erin207.  $^*t^ttyp2    Wed Dec 31 16:00   still logged
> > in
> 
> Have you rebuilt last(1) after the recent utmp.h changes?

	Yes I did and the problem was top, screen also had to be rebuilt
and the /var/tmp/wtmp file had to be deleted for everything to work
correctly.  adduser still handles up to 8 characters max for usernames. 
So I would agree with you about the last should be backwards compatible.

Vince