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.
http://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.
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Ed Schouten <[email protected]>
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