Re: lastlog is looking strange
In your email to me, Robert Stone, you wrote:
>
> i'm not sure when it started, but one of my debian 1.3 system has lines
> like:
>
> {******* ****'y*3 Tue Mar 4 11:33 - 16:37 (05:04)
>
> in the output of the 'last' command. three other 1.3 systems and
> another 1.2 system i use are not having this problem. the only major
> between this one system and the other 4 is that it's a 486 and it dials
> in to the internet... the others are 586s and are connected via ethernet.
> I wouldn't expect those differences to cause anything like this.
>
> so am i the only one getting this?
Nope.. I get that too. If you reboot, it will clean up for a
while. One thing I've found is that the machine that has this
problem is identicle to another of our production boxes, but has
ssh installed.
Tim
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