4.2 and the 'last' command

[Darren Tucker]

Jason.C.Burns at wellsfargo.com wrote:
> My question:  I can't find in the source where 'last' is explicitly
> called, so is there an API call that was added between these versions
> that would refer the system to 'last'? 

Depends.  What platform are you running, and which build and run-time 
options have you enabled?

AFAIK sshd doesn't exec "last" itself, although it's possible that 
something it calls does under the covers.

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