Philip Guenther <[email protected]> schrieb am Samstag, 17. Juli 2021 um 11:09:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 11:49 PM podolica <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On my OpenBSD installation (6.9) one of the log files created by login(1) >> seems to be a binary file: >> $ less /var/log/failedlogin >> "failedlogin" may be a binary file. See it anyway? > > ... > >> What can I learn from this logfile? >> A lot of repeating null bytes and "ttyC2" and "ttyC3" does not seems >> to be very informative. >> >> Is this an error? > > No, it's not an error. That file is specific to the 'login' command, > specifically the source file /usr/src/usr.bin/login/failedlogin.c and > consists of an array of the 'badlogin' structure specified there. If you want > to dump its contents in a more readable format then you should write a small > program to do so in C or some other language which can easily handle binary > files. > > Philip Guenther Thank you, that seems to be an explanation. Lerning never stops :-)
