gone - no logout

[Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>]

Currently if a user is logged in while logrotate renames the /var/log/wtmp 
file then the command "last -i -f /var/log/wtmp.1" will give a result such as 
the following:
root     pts/0        10.0.0.1         Fri Jan 16 13:17    gone - no logout

Also the command "last -i" will not display anything about the user in 
question (it will disregard the end entry).

Would it hurt to have a duplicate start entry in a wtmp file?  If not then is 
there any reason not to duplicate the entries from sessions in progress from 
the wtmp.1 file to the wtmp file so that "last" will display all sessions 
completely?

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