On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:43:27PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > One could duplicate lastlog(8) using last(1) with a few lines of perl. > > Can we please stop the fanboy flamewars? This file is a silly side > > effect of the change to 32 bit UIDs, and needs to be fixed. > > Suggestion: write this drop-in replacement (although ideally not in perl -- > python is kinda the fedora-tools-language-of-choice) for the lastlog command > that does the same thing but uses the information from wtmp. Suggestion 2: Before starting to write it, consider that logrotate will delete the data after two months. lastlog is very useful precisely to identify users who haven't logged in for a long time. Mirek