From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 12 13:22:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from logisticsoftware.co.nz (logisticsoftware.co.nz [202.37.163.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 391CB15119 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 13:22:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by logisticsoftware.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA08994; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 09:21:42 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 09:21:42 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen To: "Sean T. Lamont .lost." Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.X last? In-Reply-To: <199910121954.MAA92994@itchy.serv.net> 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 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. Jonathan Chen -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Internet: an empirical test of the idea that a million monkeys banging on a million keyboards can produce Shakespeare To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message