Re: No 'Last Login:' info from bash?

[Nate Carlson <natecars () REAL-TIME COM>]

On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Kris Boutilier wrote:
>  Something strange happened on a few of our Redhat 6.0 (kernel
> 2.2.12-20) boxes this morning. When I went to login to the machines via
> a telnet session I didn't get any 'Last Login' reported by the shell.
> It's been a few days since I last accessed the machines, and scanning
> the system logs doesn't show any logins by anyone at all since my
> previous session (this is normal for these machines). I've done a
> cursory check for new or modified files (using GNU find) and nothing
> looks out of the ordinary. The machines haven't been restarted and all
> the log files seem to be intact...
>
>  Is this something to be concerned about?

Have wtmp files possibly been rotated? I believe they are rotated
end-of-month by default on RedHat.. once you log out and log back in, do
you see the message? Does /var/log/wtmp.n exist?

Also, telnet is bad(tm).

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