On Thu, Jun 29, Felix Miata wrote:
Last night I dup'd to 20230627 from 20230612 or so. After zypper ref, I zypper in'd wtmpdb, then checked their status to find disabled. Then I dup'd. After, I checked again, and both were enabled. Earlier in the day on another PC, I dup'd to 27 from about 20230512 or so, then installed wtmpdb to find both enabled.
Is what wtmp/wtmpdb do something mere mortal TW users actually use? Is it rather a developer thing?
wtmp/wtmpdb contains the data, when which user did login/logout and when the machine got rebooted. In the "good old times", so 20-40 years ago, it was also used for some other stuff like storing the date at which the system clock got adjusted. But I haven't found any code doing this anymore. If you use "/usr/bin/last", you are using wtmp/wtmpdb. If you never use that tool, you don't need the database. It's not a developer thing, more an sysadmin thing. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk, Distinguished Engineer, Senior Architect, Future Technologies SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Frankenstraße 146, 90461 Nuernberg, Germany Managing Director: Ivo Totev, Andrew Myers, Andrew McDonald, Martje Boudien Moerman (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)