utmp and wtmp

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Hi everyone,
I have a scientist that runs an instrument in her lab. She uses utmp and logrotate to rotate the wtmp file and then at the beginning of the month, she records everyone's logging in and out usage on her RHE 5 machine so she can charge them for the use of the instrument. Sometimes students and other doctor's run experiments all night. Well, I have her RHE 5 machine rotating every month at the beginning of the month, it does this at midnight. The problem is that whoever is logged in at that time is dropped and the utmp doesn't continue to record his/her time on the machine. They could be on there for another 5 hours, but it doesn't pick up that user again. Is there any way to make the utmp pick up that user or continue recording that user when the logs are processing again? I know this is somewhat of an irritating quirk, but it is important to her to find out when the person logs back out so she doesn't charge him too much or too little. Any help/advice/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Many
thanks in advance.
Paula

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