Something seems strange with my accounting:

% last
prlw1     ttyp5    :0.0             Wed Mar 06 10:24 - 10:24  (00:00)
prlw1     ttyp7    :0.0             Wed Mar 06 10:19 - 10:24  (00:04)
prlw1     ttyp5    :0.0             Wed Mar 06 10:15 - 10:24  (00:08)
prlw1     ttyp6    :0.0             Wed Mar 06 10:12 - 10:12  (00:00)
prlw1     ttyp4    :0.0             Wed Mar 06 10:02   still logged in
prlw1     ttyp6    :0.0             Wed Mar 06 09:58 - 10:01  (00:02)
prlw1     ttyp4    :0.0             Wed Mar 06 09:50 - 10:01  (00:11)

wtmp begins Wed Mar 06 2002 09:50:09
% w
10:46AM  up 13 days, 18:37, 4 users, load averages: 1.30, 1.25, 1.25
USER   TTY FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
prlw1   p2 :0.0              9:49AM     0 vi /tmp/mutt-fred-6466-137 
w: Stale utmp entry: prlw1 ttyp4 :0.0


ttyp2 is where I'm writing this email, and doesn't appear in "last" output -
can it be because login is 1 min before wtmp begins?

ttyp4 is where I ran "last" and "w", so why the Stale entry?

Is this worth worrying about?

Cheers,

Patrick