RE: [TCLUG:4871] lastb

["Eric Hillman" <ehillman@cccu.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cfandre@kramer.cfsmo.honeywell.com
> [mailto:cfandre@kramer.cfsmo.honeywell.com]On Behalf Of Clay Fandre
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 1999 10:22 AM
> To: tclug-list@listserv.real-time.com
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG:4871] lastb
>
>
> Rob wrote:
> >
> > The most common cause is you are missing the file
> /var/log/btmp.  If this
> > file doesn't exist, just run 'touch /var/log/btmp' as root.
> >
>
> Then what would be the cause when you have that file (w/ proper
> permissions) and all you get is this:
>
> [root@kramer cfandre]# lastb
>
> btmp begins Mon Feb  8 08:41:06 1999
> [root@kramer cfandre]# ls -l /var/log/btmp
> -rw-------   1 root     root            0 Feb  8 08:40 /var/log/btmp
> [root@kramer cfandre]#
>
> Anyone have any ideas? Does this work for anyone?
> Clay

	Just a wild guess -- did you restart syslogd after installing that file?  I
don't think you'll automatically start getting btmp logging otherwise.  Of
course, I don't use it here for anything, so I'm really not sure.