On Mar 29,  9:00pm, jmmv84@gmail.com ("Julio M. Merino Vidal") wrote:
-- Subject: Re: lastlogx inappropriate format?

| Before doing this:
| 
| [sun jmmv] $ ls -l /var/log/lastlog* 
| -rw-rw-r--  1 root  wheel  28028 Mar 29 20:58 /var/log/lastlog
| -rw-rw-r--  1 root  wheel      0 Mar 19 19:21 /var/log/lastlogx
| 
| So these commands will have no effect (the file is already empty and
| with the correct permissions).
| 
| FWIW, and as I said, this was on a machine where 3.0_BETA was installed
| from scratch.  Just after the installation, at the very first login,
| I could see that message popping up on the screen.  So there seems to be
| a problem somewhere.

That error is new [i.e. lastlogx write failures were silent before].
I am running current, and I can see my lastlogx growing. This is strange.

christos