Re: last patch, idea

2011-04-11 Thread Peter J. Philipp
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 10:08:24AM -0400, Ian Darwin wrote: Having tried to do things like gzcat /var/log/wtmp.0.gz | last -f /dev/stdin before, I'd certainly find it useful and this is less intrusive than modifying last(8) so it could work with standard input. Unless you run an

Re: last patch, idea

2011-04-10 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2011/04/10 00:02, Peter J. Philipp wrote: Hi, while going through my wtmp with last(1) I noticed there could be a better way than always gunzip'ing wtmp files and then using last -f. I've made a patch for your consideration that does the following: a) it checks if the file is a

Re: last patch, idea

2011-04-10 Thread Ian Darwin
while going through my wtmp with last(1) I noticed there could be a better way than always gunzip'ing wtmp files and then using last -f. I've made a patch for your consideration that does the following: b) it writes the gzipped file to a /tmp location uncompressed so that the normal

Re: last patch, idea

2011-04-10 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2011/04/10 10:08, Ian Darwin wrote: while going through my wtmp with last(1) I noticed there could be a better way than always gunzip'ing wtmp files and then using last -f. I've made a patch for your consideration that does the following: b) it writes the gzipped file to a /tmp

last patch, idea

2011-04-09 Thread Peter J. Philipp
Hi, while going through my wtmp with last(1) I noticed there could be a better way than always gunzip'ing wtmp files and then using last -f. I've made a patch for your consideration that does the following: a) it checks if the file is a gzipped file by looking at the wtmp's file magic b) it