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diff --git a/chapter07/createfiles.xml b/chapter07/createfiles.xml index ec4b0eee2..cfa2ee919 100644 --- a/chapter07/createfiles.xml +++ b/chapter07/createfiles.xml @@ -227,10 +227,10 @@ chmod -v 600 /var/log/btmp</userinput></screen> <para> The <phrase revision='sysv'><filename>utmp</filename>, </phrase><filename>wtmp</filename>, <filename>btmp</filename>, and - <filename>lastlog</filename> files use 32-bit integers for timestamp + <filename>lastlog</filename> files use 32-bit integers for timestamps and they'll be fundamentally broken after year 2038. Many packages have stopped using them and other packages are going to stop using - them. Do not rely on the contents of them for anything. + them. It is probably best to consider them deprecated.. </para> </note> |