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

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

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On Mon, March 20, 2006 10:17, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
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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:
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>> 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
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> 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.

I checked it on my 1.2.10-pre system and the last command works fine.
Try deleting the btmp file.

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

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