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From: pomegranite@cnwl.igs.net (Mat Trudel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Differences in wtmp file format between FBSD and BSDI
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 23:55:24 GMT
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Hi all,

Does anyone know if there is a difference in the format of the wtmp
files between FBSD 2.1.5 and BSDI 2.1? I'm setting up a web server
running on FBSD, and wish to copy the wtmp files from our main server
(running BSDI) to facilitate an "hours used this month"ish script for
our customers.  The files copy no problem (using rdist into a
different directory than /var/log) but when I run an ac -w wtmp.host
user, it returns hour counts around the 50000 hour mark for any user.
Any ideas on how to fix this, or an easier way to do it (I want to
keep the actual processing off of the main server, and I'd like to
stay away from nfs)

tia

Mat Trudel
pomegranite@cnwl.igs.net