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

[<Her...@sp...>]

dev...@li... wrote on 21.03.2006
13:49:08:

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> On Tue, March 21, 2006 00:15, Her...@sp... wrote:
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> > dev...@li... wrote on 21.03.2006
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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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> >>>>
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> >>>> Hi All
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I have a problem with the last loging info screwing up:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> 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
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Unfortunately, this output seems to include control characters and
> >>>> sometimes this screws up the whole console.
> >>>>
> >>>> 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
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> >>> 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.
> >>
> >
> > If I access the system over ssh it works fine, but not on the local
> > console. (Physicaly attached keyboard and screen)
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> That's the way I tried it too.
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> > I have also tried to delete the btmp file.
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> 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.

I downloaded it a view days ago from Linjection...


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