last and lastlog - strange behaviour
Posted: 23. Nov 2010, 08:44
I have seceral users in my system. They log using gdm into XFCE. When I type command I can see who is logged in.
When I type command I can see the history of logging
but when I type it says everybody never logged in. It seems lastlog only remembers logging directly from tty not via gdm. Why is that so? I can remember users logged with kdm under slackware 12 were archieved by lastlog.
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When I type command
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but when I type
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