* Jun MO <royclark...@gmail.com> [240530 19:09]: > On Thu, 30 May 2024 13:18:17 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > I agree, this may be useful. Unfortunately, the current status is > > that one cannot have both: installing wtmpdb forces the upgrade of > > util-linux to 2.40.1-3 (at least), where "last" is no longer installed. > > Thanks for the change about version 2.40.1-3 of the util-linux package. > This is indeed mentioned in the NEWS.Debian from the 2.40.1-3 util-linux > package, and the NEWS.Debian also suggests installing wtmpdb. But > the last(1) from wtmpdb can not read /var/log/wtmp: > > $ last -f /var/log/wtmp > wtmpdb_read_all: SQL error: file is not a database > > And if I understood correctly, wtmpdb require program use PAM to update > wtmpdb, thus program not use PAM will still write /var/log/wtmp.
Yes. It appears it is unclear if programs that are not login-equivalents should write to wtmp in the first place. wtmpdb upstream leans - in my vague reading - towards "no". Chris
