Re: Lsuser Not Reporting Correctly

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Date:         Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:33:19 +0100
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

My solution would be to clear out lastlog via >lastlog and let it recreate
itself and re-index.

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From: Andrew Townsend [mailto:Andrew.Townsend@BISYS.COM]
Sent: 26 October 2004 14:03
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: Lsuser Not Reporting Correctly

So what's your solution?

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All,

Thanks for the help but what I think it is... is this

I ran the mkpasswd command (about 6 months ago) which puts indexes on the
passwd and lastlog file.. now the lastlog index is 5 months out of data and
when I try and view the lastlog file I get a "out of memory" error, so what
I think is wrong is the lastlog file is too large (23MB) and when a new
user is created as the system can't properly read the lastlog file it can't
put in the correct information, or something like that.

Thanks
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      From: Toalston, Michael [mailto:MToalston@GEICO.COM]
      Sent: 26 October 2004 13:18
      To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
      Subject: Re: Lsuser Not Reporting Correctly

      Are you running the lsuser command from root? Results are different
      running as normal user on my 5.1 boxes.

      Michael Toalston
      Unix System Admin
      Geico Direct

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      It would be great if any of you can help me out here..

      I am running the lsuser command on different ids and the results are
      not reporting any iformation after the "roles=" part. It seems to be
      either a flag isn't turned on or something else. Any new id that is
      created and logged in doesn't report all the information .i.e
      time_last_login=1098439418 etc even if root creates the id the same
      happens.

      The server is a M80, the OS is AIX 4.3.3.

      Thanks in advance

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