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From: kajihara@mcnc.org (Scott "Lord of Sith" Kajihara)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: why aren't console logins logged when the rest are?
Keywords: syslog, lastlog, finger
Message-ID: <2707@speedy.mcnc.org>
Date: 20 Nov 90 21:20:10 GMT
Reply-To: sullivan@pysgjb.ncsu.edu
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(S. Kajihara is posting this note for me.)

I just noticed that logins on the console are not recorded in either
~adm/SYSLOG or ~adm/lastlog.  One consequence, then, is that the finger
information is unreliable.  On the other hand the session is logged in
/etc/wtmp.

Is possible to change this behavior, and have console sessions properly
logged?

FYI: my login.options include lastlog and syslog=all.

Thanks,

--Dan Sullivan
  sullivan@pysgjb.ncsu.edu
  sullivan@ncsuphys.bitnet
-- 
     Scott Akira Kajihara "Insanity is a prerequisite for physics techie-types"
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_et al._ of which I am not aware.