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  • Re: Should be wtmp considered as successor of who(1)?

    From Michael Stone@21:1/5 to Dirk Lehmann on Tue Apr 8 18:10:01 2025
    On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 05:19:38PM +0200, Dirk Lehmann wrote:
    in relation to the discussion of 'utmp in trixie'

    * https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/04/msg00011.html

    It looks like, that wtmp is an well alternative to who(1). For that
    the command

    last -p now

    No. utmp and wtmp are two different interfaces, which have two
    different purposes.

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  • From Chris Hofstaedtler@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 8 18:00:01 2025
    * Dirk Lehmann <[email protected]> [250408 17:20]:
    in relation to the discussion of 'utmp in trixie'

    * https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/04/msg00011.html

    It looks like, that wtmp is an well alternative to who(1). For that
    the command

    last -p now

    should be able to use in the future. But the developers at upstream
    of wtmpdb persist in the opinion that wtmp has nothing to do with
    utmp before merging PR#36.

    They are correct.

    Now, I have not the guts to ask them, if they would like to implement
    an own who(1) utility.

    I think that would be wrong.

    Chris

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