utmp/wtmp

Jerome Freedman freedman at mips2.cr.bull.com
Sat Jun 30 00:10:57 AEST 1990


   Could someone explain the uses and abuses of utmp/wtmp files.
I have found TFM less than informative. I am reading telnet and
rlogin source but anything would be helpful. Also
could someone point out the differences between sys5, bsd and
posix use/interpretation of these files.


                                   Jerry Freedman,Jr



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