Re: What, why, where, utmp?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that one of the latest fixes to dpkg-buildpackage deals with the lack of utmp entries, but don't understand why they were abandoned. They weren't - the size of the

What, why, where, utmp?

One of my gaping holes of ignorance has to do with utmp entries; what they are, why are they gone, where is the package that creates them? I know that one of the latest fixes to dpkg-buildpackage deals with the lack of utmp entries, but don't understand why they were abandoned. I just discovered

Re: What, why, where, utmp?

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of my gaping holes of ignorance has to do with utmp entries; what they are, why are they gone, where is the package that creates them? An utmp entry is an entry in a fixed-size binary database located in /var/run/utmp. It