patch for "gone - no logout" output from last(1)

[Darren Tucker]

John P. Eisenmenger wrote:

> After upgrading one of my systems to the linux 2.6.4 kernel, it started 
> having problems recording the logout entries in the wtmp file.  I traced 
> this to a bug in loginrec.c, where a variable (line) is declared as an 
> array of 8 characters.  This length is substantially shorter than the 16 
> character array size of ut_line, so openssh effectively truncates the 
> pseudo-tty name when the pseudo-tty number exceeds 999.  With the new
> linux kernels, the pseudo-ttys are not reused as in the past

Is that deliberate?  Sounds like a kernel bug...

[snip]
> Below is my version of the patch.

Seems reasonable, applied.  Thanks.

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