Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Last login information screwed up

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

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On Mon, March 20, 2006 09:05, Her...@sp... wrote:
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> Hi All
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> I have a problem with the last loging info screwing up:
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> Wehn I login the system shows me information about the last login, but
> for some reason the login device info is screwed up. I have tried to
> delete the /var/log/wtmp file, but it didn't help. Here is a sample output
> of last:
>
> root     tty1                          Mon Mar 20 15:27   still logged in
>  root     *e>4H******O                  Mon Mar 20 15:27   still logged
> in reboot   system boot  2.4.32-grsec     Mon Mar 20 15:27
> (00:01)
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> wtmp begins Mon Mar 20 15:27:03 2006
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> Unfortunately, this output seems to include control characters and
> sometimes this screws up the whole console.
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> I'm running the test version of 1.2.10

I can't access my 1.2.10 system from here, I'll take a look at it when I
get home.
One change I did was turning off the support for /var/log/btmp for
openssh. Try deleting the btmp, maybe that helps.

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org

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