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purefinity
30th December 2004, 05:41 PM
Has anyone figured out how to get btmp running on Fedora Core 3?

I did a touch /var/log/btmp as the man page suggests, but the lastb command still returns nothing.

Thanks :confused:

purefinity
31st December 2004, 10:30 PM
Anyone????

hmoviat
27th June 2005, 12:04 PM

I have the same problem. I did a RTFM and came to the following:

touch /var/btmp
chgrp utmp /var/btmp

According to the FM this should work, bot nothing is logged. I tried an existing userid and a non extisting but no entries are added?

Please advise?

hmoviat
27th June 2005, 12:06 PM
oops..., typo:

touch /var/log/btmp
chgrp utmp /var/log/btmp

purefinity
14th September 2005, 07:30 PM
I'm at Fedora Core 4 now, and touching the file still doesn't work. :-(