lastlog devours universe

[Miloslav Trmac]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:43:27PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > One could duplicate lastlog(8) using last(1) with a few lines of perl.
> > Can we please stop the fanboy flamewars?  This file is a silly side
> > effect of the change to 32 bit UIDs, and needs to be fixed.
> 
> Suggestion: write this drop-in replacement (although ideally not in perl --
> python is kinda the fedora-tools-language-of-choice) for the lastlog command
> that does the same thing but uses the information from wtmp.
Suggestion 2: Before starting to write it, consider that logrotate will
delete the data after two months.  lastlog is very useful precisely to
identify users who haven't logged in for a long time.
	Mirek