Subject: Re: long usernames
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
From: Rick Kelly <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 02/17/2003 11:14:44
Christos Zoulas said:
>There was a static variable in who that made it look like it was
>not consulting utmpx (because it truncated long host names). And
>yes, last(1) had not been converted, but now it is.
Last was what stuck out like a sore thumb. The output from last is somewhat
important when tracking previous system events. On my 3/80 running SunOS 4.1.1,
last data goes all the way back to when it was first installed. Around 1989.
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