Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca: > 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 about ut_addr, and even comes with a man page :-). Is the GNU last better? Why? Regards, Marek