Re: /var/log/failedlogin is a binary file with a lot of null bytes?!

2021-07-17 Thread podolica
Philip Guenther schrieb am Samstag, 17. Juli 2021 um 11:09: > On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 11:49 PM podolica wrote: > >> On my OpenBSD installation (6.9) one of the log files created by login(1) >> seems to be a binary file: >> $ less /var/log/failedlogin >> "fai

Re: /var/log/failedlogin is a binary file with a lot of null bytes?!

2021-07-17 Thread Ingo Schwarze
on. Lerning never stops :-) By the way, to help learning even more, part of what Philip explained can be guessed from the manual, even though it isn't fully spelled out. What one might do to find out is this: $ man failedlogin man: No entry for failedlogin in the manual. Hmm, that file does

/var/log/failedlogin is a binary file with a lot of null bytes?!

2021-07-17 Thread podolica
Hi all, On my OpenBSD installation (6.9) one of the log files created by login(1) seems to be a binary file: $ less /var/log/failedlogin "failedlogin" may be a binary file. See it anyway? The hexdump of it is: openbsd# hexdump -C failedlogin 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Re: /var/log/failedlogin is a binary file with a lot of null bytes?!

2021-07-17 Thread Philip Guenther
On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 11:49 PM podolica wrote: > On my OpenBSD installation (6.9) one of the log files created by login(1) > seems to be a binary file: > $ less /var/log/failedlogin > "failedlogin" may be a binary file. See it anyway? > ... > What can I

Re: failedlogin

2006-11-17 Thread Ryan Corder
On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 23:15 -0800, patrick ~ wrote: > Noticed that /var/log/failedlogin grew from 0 > bytes to 304304 bytes. it's a binary log, mine is the exact same size on 4.0. > I couldn't find much about the file. Some googling > brings some AIX related pages. One re

failedlogin

2006-11-16 Thread patrick ~
Greetings, This is on a 4.0 test system. I'm preping it to move over a 3.9 system. It was cvs updated to -rOPENBSD_4_0 and new kernel then system built. Noticed that /var/log/failedlogin grew from 0 bytes to 304304 bytes. I couldn't find much about the file. Some googling bring