24 Jan
2002
24 Jan
'02
21:00
Il 20:01, giovedì 24 gennaio 2002, Benedikt Wilbertz ha scritto:
While monitoring /var/log/wtmp with tail -f, I discovered, that the use of netdate added some strange characters to that file, which could lead to such an corrupted output of last.
I tested it on SuSE 7.2, 2.2.19 with the netdate.rpm of both, SuSE 7.2 and 7.3.
Perhaps anyone can confirm this discovery.
Benedikt Wilbertz
Yes, it's happening here too. I am using Suse 7.1 with Kernel 2.4.16, but it was the same with older kernels. I also have noticed that when I try last just after netdate, the output is almost empty (ie, it reports only the time when wtmp starts is reported). Btw, it gets back if I login after netdate. So it looks there must be a bug in netdate after all! Praise