[systemd-devel] lastlog and friends

Karel Zak kzak at redhat.com
Tue Jul 29 09:29:47 PDT 2014


On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 02:51:37PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
> >  Maybe all we need for things like lastlog and wtmp is journald and then 
> >  a few #ifdef in applications like login(1), who(1) or PAM. Maybe it
> >  would be better than add an extra abstraction layer (by any library).
> >  Not sure, too many question :-)
> 
> please keep in mind that on servers "Storage=volatile" and forward
> to classic rsyslog is common and that won't change - so whatever
> you read from journal are only recent entries which won't survive
> a reboot

 That's why I'm asking, I guess that behind the TODO item is any idea
 which has to be implement in on journal side. I'd like to know the
 long-term goal to avoid some future misunderstanding/flames :-)

    Karel

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