UTMP IP address implimentation

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 15:52, Philip Anderson wrote:
> I just made a simple attempt at implimenting ut->addr in utmp.c so that
> 'last -i' wouldp produce the client's IP address.  I tried it, and all
> appears to work on my RedHat 9 machine.  Is this a valid solution?
> 
> I added the following lines to the end of sys_utmp_fill in utmp.c:
> 
> #if defined(HAVE_UT_UT_ADDR)
>         inet_pton(AF_INET,hostname,&(u->ut_addr));
> #endif

That doesn't look quite right - you should ask the code further up to
give you the raw IP address, still in it's struct, and use that
directly. 

With the right options, we will actually fill 'hostname' with the
reverse DNS name.

Andrew Bartlett

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