From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F461C433DF for ; Fri, 31 Jul 2020 22:07:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27A5D2087C for ; Fri, 31 Jul 2020 22:07:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1725830AbgGaWHM (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Jul 2020 18:07:12 -0400 Received: from info.physics.ubc.ca ([142.103.234.23]:50376 "HELO info.physics.ubc.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1725767AbgGaWHM (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Jul 2020 18:07:12 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 573 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2020 18:07:02 EDT Received: by info.physics.ubc.ca (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A954212004C; Fri, 31 Jul 2020 14:57:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 14:57:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Unruh To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org Subject: last: incomprehensible note--"gone -- no logout Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (LMD 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: util-linux@vger.kernel.org The message from last "gone - no logout" makes no sense. I log onto the machine with ssh, and that is message I get from last, and I certainly am not gone (I am reading the message on that login) Here is an example unruh pts/5 ::1 Fri Jul 31 22:51 gone - no logout unruh pts/5 ::1 Fri Jul 31 22:49 - 22:51 (00:01) daniel pts/4 :0 Fri Jul 31 00:18 still logged in Note that the second entry is my last login (where when I ran last, it gave me the "gone - no logout" entry, and the first is the current ssh login.