Marek Michalkiewicz writes:
Marek> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Dirk> I have reported this to the upstream maintainer. He promised me new
Dirk> acct code (last is part of acct) about six months ago, so don't hold
Dirk> your breath.
Marek> How about using last from util-linux? It has the stand
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes:
Miquel> There is a last with the GNU copyright in sysvinit. It isn't
Miquel> compiled and installed by default, but it is small and fast.
That sounds good to me. As your sysvinit package is part of every Debian
installation, we could use this 'last' binary an
You ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> Marek> Is the GNU last better? Why?
>
> We went through this before when I split last from the acct package to have a
> single last package for the /base/ section. Some people where proposing to
> use the BSD one, others recommended to keep the GNU last, and so
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> I have reported this to the upstream maintainer. He promised me new acct code
> (last is part of acct) about six months ago, so don't hold your breath.
How about using last from util-linux? It has the standard BSD copyright,
there are no patent issues that I know of, it knows
I have reported this to the upstream maintainer. He promised me new acct code
(last is part of acct) about six months ago, so don't hold your breath.
--
Dirk Eddelb|ttelhttp://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
Package: last
Version: 5-12
The GNU version of last doesn't make use of the ut_addr utmp field which
is supposed to contain the IP address for remote logins. The size of
ut_host (16 chars) is too small and host names are often truncated. The
IP address is the only reliable way to identify the re
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