[Pkg-shadow-devel] /var/log/lastlog

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday 13 April 2009 07:10:56 Jon Grant wrote:
> just noticed that /var/log/lastlog is a binary file. I wondered if it
> could be made a text file so it was freely readable by normal text tools?

and break backwards compatibility for no real reason ?  that doesnt sound like 
a good idea.

parsing a text db format is just as easy as parsing the output of lastlog.
-mike