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 extermely large shop like Beck does, or have extremely > tiny disks, why not just remove all the Z flags from newsyslog.conf? > This has the side effect of not having to gunzip /var/log/daemon* & friends.
This is a good idea. I guess I don't need my patch then. I won't clean it up then either. > I guess we inherited this log gzipping from 4BSD, but in those days > a 300MB disk cost a month's salary. Plus another week's salary or so > for the trucking charges. funny. :-) -peter
