So there is this post which says:
"Yes, the people who are likely to care are admins with cobwebby
homebrew cronjobs that regularly generate painstakingly formatted
security reports and send them to the fax machine, or whatever."
...I feel extremely personally attacked by this :)
(Replace fax with mail, or whatever.)
I want my freshly upgraded to Debian Trixie Raspberry Pi to keep sending this cobwebby report... even if it is only for a couple of years to come... thus:
How to get lastb back on Debian
install dependencies:
apt install build-essential gettext autoconf flex bison libtool autopoint
get the source:
git clone https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux.git
rtfm:
cd util-linux
more Documentation/howto-compilation.txt
compile:
./autogen.sh && ./configure --disable-all-programs --enable-last
make last
install:
cp ./last /usr/bin/last
ln -s /usr/bin/last /usr/bin/lastb
happiness:
# lastb
btmp begins Thu Dec 4 15:50:47 2025
