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Re: utmp in trixie



Hi Dirk,

On Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 09:10:42PM +0200, Dirk Lehmann wrote:
> On 4/3/25 2:58 PM, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> > I never cared about /run/utmp in itself, but I got used to last(1).
> > FWIW, a new implementation of last is now provided by wtmpdb.
> 
> +1
> 
> great, it looks like that
> 
>   * wtmpdb(8)
[...]
> The program arguments are not fully compatible with Unix equivalent
> last(1).  I.e. it seems not to be possible to just filter out all
> current still active sessions, which should be provided by `last -p`
> in the Unix world.

Presumably you used 'last -p now' for this? It looks like this would be
satisfied by a richer range of accepted time specifications by wtmpdb.
Do you want to raise a bug? Worth adding if there is anything else
defective (it looks to me that crashed sessions get included, which
seems unhelpful).

Andrew

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