Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bu-cs!spike
From: spike@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Spike)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: An odd (but harmless) bug...
Message-ID: <23276@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 11 Jun 88 21:57:30 GMT
References: <21818@think.UUCP>
Reply-To: spike@bu-it.bu.edu (Joe Ilacqua)
Followup-To: comp.unix.aux
Organization: Boston University Distributed Systems Group
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In article <21818@think.UUCP> whitney@think.UUCP (David Whitney) writes:
<I checked the man pages for finger, and in the "see also" section, it mentions
<the file (or directory) /usr/adm/lastlog. I figure it's a dir, so I created
<a dir by that name. Still, "Never logged in". Any ideas?


	It is a FILE which contains the time, line, and host of your
last login in.  It is hashed by you UID, so it can be read with something like:

  lseek(last_log, uid * sizeof(l_log),0);

	This true for 4.[23] BSD anyway.  Try creating an empty file.
->Spike