Re: Debian 2.0 last, wtmp broken

1998-08-27 Thread john
Eric Fain writes: > Does everyone else use last? It occurs to me that maybe people who don't > have a lot of users on their systems might not have tried last since > upgrading to hamm. Actually, I've never tried it before (two users). Seems to work fine, though. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Debian 2.0 last, wtmp broken

1998-08-27 Thread Lewis, James M.
lept since then. Anybody remember? jim -- From: Eric Fain[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 27, 1998 3:14 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: The recipient's address is unknown. Subject: Re: Debian 2.0 last, wtmp broken Unfortunately, repeatin

Re: Debian 2.0 last, wtmp broken

1998-08-27 Thread Eric Fain
Unfortunately, repeating the procedure described in autoup.sh has not been successful. Your operation of last doesn't sound right to me, unless you have last aliased to something. In my case however, logging in as root does not give me any more entries than before (zero). Does everyone else use

Re: Debian 2.0 last, wtmp broken

1998-08-27 Thread Jay Barbee
It sounds as if you did changing over of wtmp and utmp correctly. I however did not. I actually touched wtmp and copied /dev/null to utmp before I rebooted my newly install hamm for the first time. This gave me garbage for last. So I redid the steps pointed out by the upgrade FAQ, and rebo

Debian 2.0 last, wtmp broken

1998-08-27 Thread Eric Fain
I have 4 machines running Debian, three of which I have upgraded to 2.0 (hamm) from 1.3.1 using autoup.sh. I have followed the instructions contained therein regarding utmp and wtmp, (repeatedly) but my last command does not work properly on any of these machines: "last" returns with nothing excep