Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
BTW, UT_HOSTSIZE=16 is too short in my opinion.
As I can see, linux has UT_HOSTSIZE=256.
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Garance A Drosihn wrote:
Actually, it would be nice to log both. That's what I have done
for some printer-related statistics (not sure if I did that in
FreeBSD, but I do that for production use at RPI).
I like the idea. We can add field 'address' in utmp structure and save
hostname and IP addres
>>> IMHO to be more robust, we should make utmp to hold an IP address
>>> instead of a hostname and change all applications that use it. As
>>> bonus it will fix a delay on login when resolving does not work.
>>> And last(1) will show more useful IP address instead of changable
>>> hostname.
>
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At 5:16 PM +1100 2/14/05, Peter Jeremy wrote:
On Sun, 2005-Feb-13 19:50:44 +0300, Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
IMHO to be more robust, we should make utmp to hold an IP address
> instead of a hostname and change all applications that use it. As
> bonus it will fix a delay on login when resolving doe
Peter Jeremy wrote:
Depending on the environment, the IP address may be more changeable
than the hostname. Definitely, in a DHCP or dialup environment, you
can't rely on the IP address at any time other than during the
session. There is little (if any) benefit in logging the IP address
instead of
On Sun, 2005-Feb-13 19:50:44 +0300, Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
>IMHO to be more robust, we should make utmp to hold an IP address
>instead of a hostname and change all applications that use it. As bonus
>it will fix a delay on login when resolving does not work. And last(1)
>will show more useful
w(1) behaviour has changed with brien commit in w.c revision 1.48.
Funny, but looks like '-n' options works right after commit, not before.
The reason is utmp holds a host name and w(1) with '-n' flag _do_
resolve hostname back in IP address and without '-n' don't resolve it.
It's confised.
IMHO
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