Re: llimport(8): Import lastlog into utmpx

2011-06-03 Thread Ed Schouten
* Doug Barton , 20110603 23:10: > On 06/03/2011 14:07, Ed Schouten wrote: > >the reason why I picked the current > >approach, is because I don't want to cause people to get confused when > >they upgrade to 9.0, to discover that their lastlog database is > >`missing'. > > Understood, but in my mind

Re: llimport(8): Import lastlog into utmpx

2011-06-03 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/03/2011 14:07, Ed Schouten wrote: the reason why I picked the current approach, is because I don't want to cause people to get confused when they upgrade to 9.0, to discover that their lastlog database is `missing'. Understood, but in my mind that's a release notes issue. -- No

Re: llimport(8): Import lastlog into utmpx

2011-06-03 Thread Ed Schouten
Hi Doug, * Doug Barton , 20110603 22:57: > FWIW I'm not enthusiastic about either option. I definitely don't > think an rc.d script is desirable, since it would be run at every > boot for what (if I understand it correctly) is a one-time thing. > More or less the same argument applies to adding th

Re: llimport(8): Import lastlog into utmpx

2011-06-03 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/03/2011 13:47, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Ed Schouten wrote: Hi all, I think not long after I replaced utmp with utmpx, I got requests to add utilities to convert the old utmp databases to the new formats. I added wtmpcvt(1) for /var/log/wtmp*, but I didn't add

Re: llimport(8): Import lastlog into utmpx

2011-06-03 Thread Ed Schouten
Hi Garrett, * Garrett Cooper , 20110603 22:47: > Is this a one time change? If so, wouldn't it make more sense to > put this into mergemaster(8) instead of rc(5)? Good point. I hadn't thought about that. I'll take a look. -- Ed Schouten WWW: http://80386.nl/ pgpPqpOBLzIvU.pgp Descripti

Re: llimport(8): Import lastlog into utmpx

2011-06-03 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Ed Schouten wrote: > Hi all, > > I think not long after I replaced utmp with utmpx, I got requests to add > utilities to convert the old utmp databases to the new formats. I added > wtmpcvt(1) for /var/log/wtmp*, but I didn't add any tools for the other > databases.

llimport(8): Import lastlog into utmpx

2011-06-03 Thread Ed Schouten
Hi all, I think not long after I replaced utmp with utmpx, I got requests to add utilities to convert the old utmp databases to the new formats. I added wtmpcvt(1) for /var/log/wtmp*, but I didn't add any tools for the other databases. Even though it's a bit overdue (more than one year later?), I