last login displayed in numbers

[Mark Cafferkey]

Hi,
I am running HPUX 11 and am writing a script to delete users - one of the checks I would like to do is to ensure the user has not logged on in over 14 days. Without using Perl, does anyone have a simple method.
Thanks
Mark

[Alex Glennie]

check out the man page for the last command may help ?

[Alex Glennie]

ps appologies if your already using last to get the details.... I'm still looking for some more useful details ....

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Mark:

You might consider using:

# last -1

where is substituted from reading /etc/passwd (obviously).

The 'last' will return the single most recent logon (if any) for the user. You could convert the date in month-name and day format to a simple numeric value representing the day-offset of the current year and compare for an equal or greater than 14-day difference.

...JRF...

[Michael Tully]

Hi Mark,

One thing to note is to make sure that
when you write your script check to
make sure that your /var/adm/wtmp file
carries the information for the full
14 days.

Michael

[Mark Cafferkey]

Thanks All for the replies,
James - I got as far as the last -1 but thought there might be a simpler way to obtain a number value rather than write a small script to convert. No problem
Thanks for the help
-M