Re: how is lastlog written ?

From: Barry Margolin (barry.margolin@level3.com)
Date: 04/01/03 

From: Barry Margolin <barry.margolin@level3.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 23:39:31 GMT

In article <_Zzha.9968$0X.3582868@twister.columbus.rr.com>,
Jack Patteeuw <jjpatteeuw@peoplepc.com> wrote:
>Specifically, what call get the host name/address of where you are
>coming from.

There is no such call. The telnet/ssh/whatever server passes the hostname
as a parameter to login, and login then stores it in utmp and lastlog. 

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Barry Margolin, barry.margolin@level3.com
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