/var/log/lastlog missing

zQUEz · 08-08-2007, 07:10 AM

Can someone tell me what package or config. script I need to reinstall or edit to get /var/log/lastlog written to?

I have a RHEL3 system where this file simply doesn't exist.
All my other RHEL3 and 4 systems do by default and I cannot find (man pages, google) any info on why this system wouldn't be writing it.

I can't see an rpm called lastlog or similar so I am thinking it is part of another package.

Any ideas?

Berhanie · 08-08-2007, 10:21 AM

I got the following on a RH4 (really, CentOS 4) system:

Code:

[root@machine log]# rpm -qf /var/log/lastlog
setup-2.5.37-1.3
shadow-utils-4.0.3-60.RHEL4

zQUEz · 08-08-2007, 07:38 PM

thanks for the reply Berhanie. For RHEL3 there is only 1 package "setup-2.5.x.x.x" so that was something I was going to try, till I found out an easier way from an obscure posting I came across.

Simply touching /var/log/lastlog was enough to get it to work again. Weird how it wouldn't create it itself, but anyway, there it is.

# touch /var/log/lastlog