What's the correct way to write a wtmp entry on SVR4?

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1 total messages Started by Sam Neely Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:18

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Author: Sam Neely
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:18

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Environment: SVR4 (4.0.4), Dell Issue 2.2

I need to write an entry to /var/adm/wtmp and /var/adm/wtmpx to signify
that a user has logged out.  I have tried using the getut(3c) routines
to do this, but I do not know how to tell the library to append the
entry to the end of the file rather than searching for an entry to
update.

Could someone tell me the correct way to update wtmp{,x}?  I'd like
to use the getut(3c) routines if it is possible as I don't want to
open the files directly if I can avoid it.

Thanks
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