On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 20:27:36, Jason Cormie wrote:
> Package: sysvinit
> Version: 2.86.ds1-1
> Severity: minor
> 
> 
> when I run last -i to dispaly ip addresses,
> it can display IPv4 addresses, but messes up IPv6

Can you show an example of how it "messes up IPv6" ? How are you
loggin in - telnet, rlogin, ssh ?

"last" handles IPv6 in utmp/wtmp correctly as far as I know, but
I also know that ssh did not in previous versions at least. Not sure
what current versions do.

So I guess last just shows you what actually is logged in
/var/log/wtmp, and if it's junk, it's junk ...

Mike.


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