JOE@oregon.uoregon.edu (Joe St Sauver) (03/22/90)
In looking at the output from the "% last | more", it has come to my attention that the address field really isn't wide enough to cope with a domain-name- (instead of IP number) based environment. You can confirm that this is indeed a "feature" rather than a "bug" by doing a % man 5 wtmp -- there she is, char ut_host[16] .... And, of course, since the field is truncated on the right, one can at times be left with nothing but PC-21.WEST-CAMPU for an identifying node address, which I find far from ideal. "Hard" IP numbers fit nicely in a 16 character wide field, but domain names typically do not. Is there any way to (retroactively) get the full domain name info so nicely shown on the Console screen? That is, is the full text of the console messages automatically written to a file anywhere? Thanks for any suggestions, Joe St Sauver (JOE@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU or JOE@OREGON)