'last' displays wrong info for logins via mgetty

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Hi,

are you using SysV-Init or Simple Init? If it's simple init, this is
normal ('cause SimpleInit handles the utmp/wtmp file slightly differently
and the "last" tool is also somewhat broken), and you have to define
-DNO_SYSVINIT in the Makefile.

gert


Jan Richert wrote:
> 
> mgetty 0.97
> Linux 1.2.11
> 
> Problem: While a modem user (via mgetty) is logged in, "last" displays
>          this user the way it should (one entry, "still logged in").
>          After the user has logged out a second entry is shown by "last"
>          which may look like this:
> 
> jrichert  ttyS2        14400/ARQ/V42b   Fri Nov  3 21:11 - 21:13  (00:01)
> jrichert  ttyS2        14400/ARQ/V42b   Fri Nov  3 21:11 - 21:11  (00:00)
> 
> Remember: jrichert was logged in only once!
> 
> This happens only for users which came into the system via mgetty.
> 
> Any hints?
> 
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