topic Re: monitoring logins in Operating System - HP-UX

monitoring logins

Chris Conrad — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:51:13 GMT

How can I get a list of who has logged in over the last 30 days?

Re: monitoring logins

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:54:08 GMT

Have a look at the 'last' command. 'man last' for more information.

If you want to see invalid logins look at 'lastb'. 'man lastb' for more information.

Re: monitoring logins

Chris Conrad — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:59:25 GMT

Thanks Patrick. That's all I needed to know.

Re: monitoring logins

Bill Hassell — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:58:03 GMT

Note that last (and lastb) have several options to select the users and number of login entries. Note that the datafiles (/var/adm/wtmp and /var/adm/btmp) will grow without bounds and do not have a year stored so these files must be trimmed to less than 11 months of data. But on busy systems, these logs may grow so rapidly that monthly trimming may be needed.