On 17/12/2012 18:55, Matthias Petermann wrote: > Hello, > > on one of my systems I just found out that "last" only shows some old > login / logout activity, but not the recent actvities. > > The strange thing... everytime I log into the system, /var/log/utx.log > gets update to the current timestamp (and also grows by some bytes). > > But "last" only shows very old data... > > srv# last -f utx.log -d 20121218 > matthias pts/3 Mon Dec 3 23:32 still > logged in > matthias pts/2 Mon Dec 3 23:31 still > logged in > > Is there any reason why I can't see the recent logins there? Which > component does write data to utx.log - is this done via syslog or a > lower level mechanism?
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/168844 Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey
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