last stopped working

From: Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs_at_natur.cuni.cz>
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 21:45:22 +0100 (MET)

Hello,
 I have a problem. ;-)

the "last" reports entries only older than Dec16. However, it seems that
wtmp is updated properly:

prfdec$ ls -la /var/adm/utmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 7800 Jan 8 21:35 /var/adm/utmp
prfdec$ ls -la /var/adm/wtmp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 42158364 Jan 8 21:35 /var/adm/wtmp
prfdec$

The machine is 4.0D with DUV40DAS00003-19981120.tar applied - without the
ASE part. However, the patch I applied on Dec 8, so I don't expect the
problem to be related to the patch. Isn't the last command affected by
wtmp file size? It's a bit large. I could re-create the file (does anybody
remeber the command to re-create an empty wtmp? -I know there's one in the
archives... ;-)) --But is not my primary question: So, why last doesn't
work anymore? "who" and "w" do report currently loggen in users.

TIA
--
Martin Mokrejs - PGP 5.0i key at: finger://mail.natur.cuni.cz/mmokrejs
<mmokrejs_at_natur.cuni.cz> Faculty of Science, The Charles University
Received on Fri Jan 08 1999 - 20:46:09 NZDT

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