On Fri, Nov 01, 2024 at 05:03:11PM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > Control: severity -1 wishlist > Control: retitle -1 wtmpdb: read old format files > > On Fri, Nov 01, 2024 at 02:39:54PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > Expectation is that commands still work on the old databases > > wtmpdb never made such a promise.
It;'s silly and user unfriendly to do otherwise. Our database (in the old format) is being collected and grown in production. Is not something we should break. > > Note, the wtmp file is still being updated > > Possible, but not by wtmpdb. For the record, I have checked and this is done by sac, i.e. by the tool called writetmp. > > I haven't checked, if new > > records are done in a wrong format and file is currently being corrupted > > I don't know how you arrive there. Seems not the case anyway. I was thinking loudly about possible issues with binary format changes on a living machine. -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
