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

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

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On Tue, March 21, 2006 00:15, Her...@sp... wrote:
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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
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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
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>>> get home. One change I did was turning off the support for
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>>> for openssh. Try deleting the btmp, maybe that helps.
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>> 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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> If I access the system over ssh it works fine, but not on the local
> console. (Physicaly attached keyboard and screen)

That's the way I tried it too.

> I have also tried to delete the btmp file.

Weird.
Can you compare your 1.2.10-pre release with the one which is currently on
the FTP server ? Maybe it's an older one.

If that all doesn't help, it's probably time to run the last command via
strace, to see where it load that stuff from.

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

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