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Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:10:42 -0400
From: Jon LaBadie <jcyg AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: {uw}tmp
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Couple of observations concerning the utmp and wtmp files
Are they problems known, or just the way it works.

-  last looks to /var/log/wtmp
-  login/rlogin/telnet update /var/log/wtmp

-  who looks to  /var/run/utmp
   - seems to work ok if /var/run/utmp and /var/log/wtmp are linked

-  rxvt, with the --loginShell and +ut options update neither file

-  last does not show previous logins, only active ones

-  utmpdump shows mostly empty fields for previous logins
   -  od -c confirms the information in those fields has been null'ed out (\0's)

-  utmpdump has no man page

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Jon H. LaBadie                  jcyg AT jgcomp DOT com
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