Hi all,

  While doing some mucking around in the /var/log directory and altering 
/etc/logrotate.conf I
appear to have blown away /var/log/lastlog.  Now, when I log in I am greeted by:

Last login: Wed Dec 31 1969 18:00:00 -0600

Which is before I was born.  If I log out and log in again, the message repeats.  
'lastlog'
giveth:

/var/log/lastlog: no such file or directory

So my lastlog is history.  How do I recreate this?  Querying which package owns this 
file 'rpm -af
/var/log/lastlog' yields setup-2.1.9-10mdk.  Looking a little further into the 
package, it also
contains /etc/passwd, /etc/services, and other important files, so I don't want to 
just upgrade
the package, obliterating other customized files, hoping for a new lastlog file.

Any suggestions?

I suppose as a messy fix I could copy the lastlog from a similiarly configured box and 
then edit
out the extra accounts by hand, but I would prefer not to do this.  The boxes in 
question are
running Mandrake 7.1.  

TIA,

Matt


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