Hello, Santiago Vila, le lun. 11 mai 2026 18:28:44 +0200, a ecrit: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 12:57:47PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Jochen Sprickerhof, le mer. 11 févr. 2026 10:52:14 +0100, a ecrit: > > > * Santiago Vila <[email protected]> [2026-02-11 02:41]: > > > > Ok, assuming we will do this for forky, I have a simple question: > > > > > > > > Is the Hurd any different from linux regarding this, or they should be > > > > treated the same? > > > > > > I used mmdebstrap to boostrap an up to date Hurd and found that it does > > > not > > > write to /var/log/lastlog nor to /var/log/btmp but there is a logwtmp() > > > call > > > here: > > > > > > https://sources.debian.org/src/hurd/1:0.9.git20251029-4/daemons/runttys.c?hl=311#L311 > > > > On Debian GNU/Hurd, by default we don't use upstream's runttys, we leave > > it up to sysvinit. > > So, does that mean it's also ok to stop creating those files in the Hurd?
It looks so, yes. I have however noticed that lastlog gets updated when connecting through ssh. But that's probably not related to the Hurd only. Samuel
