Probably really simple wtmp question

Tom Armistead toma at swsrv1.cirr.com
Sun May 19 04:19:55 AEST 1991


In article <1991May16.042013.4116 at eve.wright.edu> spotter at eve.wright.edu (Master Vampire) writes:
>Ok, so I'm probably really stupid, but hey! this is comp.unix.QUESTIONS!
>
>It seems to me at one time I ran a command that searched wtmp and gave me a
>list of every time my account had been logged on since wtmp was last cleared.
>Now, I again need to do this, and can't remember.  Is there a command that 
>lets Joe.Average.User look in wtmp, or was it a sysadmin tool that I was using
>when I had sysadmin privs??
>
>Thanks,
>Steve
>
>
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'who /etc/wtmp' will show a history of all who have logged on since wtmp was
last cleared.  With 'who -a /etc/wtmp' you can also tell when someone logged
off.

wtmp usually has read for everyone.

Tom
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