On 07/26/2007 10:44 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 05:52:00PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:Florian Kulzer wrote:I have been using Debian for about 5 years now. As far as I remember, it always had the "n failure(s) since last login" message (if n was greater than zero).I have never seen that message.it works reliably on this particular up-to-date sid box, shows the proper number of failures. I think it must come from login, but I can't see what might cause to happen or not.[...]
And it works on my Etch box, but my main box is still this Sarge computer. Nothing in /etc/profile, ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc seems to produce this message. Surely the message comes from the 'login' command, but I can't see what feature of login enables that.