Hi Santiago, hi Samuel, * Santiago Vila <[email protected]> [2026-02-11 02:41]:
[ sorry for the late reply ]On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 04:23:04PM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:The old lastlog program is gone, so TTBOMK it's become impossible to read the file. With my util-linux+shadow maintainer hats on, I'd think it'd be better to stop creating the file ASAP.Ok, assuming we will do this for forky, I have a simple question: Is the Hurd any different from linux regarding this, or they should be treated the same?
I used mmdebstrap to boostrap an up to date Hurd and found that it does not write to /var/log/lastlog nor to /var/log/btmp but there is a logwtmp() call here:
https://sources.debian.org/src/hurd/1:0.9.git20251029-4/daemons/runttys.c?hl=311#L311@Samuel: Do you have more context if /var/log/lastlog and /var/log/btmp are still in use on Hurd?
Also, is the logwtmp() call still needed? Context is that we want to drop all three on Linux in Forky. Cheers Jochen
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