[systemd-devel] lastlog and friends

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 29.07.14 14:51, Reindl Harald (h.reindl at thelounge.net) wrote:

> 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

Well, whatever.

If you turn off local journal storage, you get no local journal storage,
and your login history stored within it will be truncated. But that's
completely OK and simply what the admin configured. I see no reason to
duplicate everything in utmp because some folks disable local
storage...

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat