topic Re: Last Command in Operating System - HP-UX

Last Command

George_14 — Tue, 24 Jul 2001 11:48:56 GMT

Even After rebooting the system, the last command shows that users are still logged in. How can I solve it? Thanks.

Re: Last Command

RikTytgat — Tue, 24 Jul 2001 12:04:48 GMT

Hi,

If you don't care about the contents of the wtmp file, truncate it (> /var/adm/wtmp).

If you want to keep the logging, try this:

# cat /var/adm/wtmp | /usr/sbin/acct/fwtmp > filename
# vi filename
...
remove the entries you do not want
...
# cat filename | fwtmp -ic > /var/adm/wtmp.new

Now, check your newly created wtmp file:

# last -f /var/adm/wtmp.new
...

If the results are satisfactory, move the new file to /var/adm/wtmp

Good luck,
Rik

Re: Last Command

Rainer von Bongartz — Tue, 24 Jul 2001 12:07:22 GMT

cat /dev/null > /var/adm/wtmp zeroes the input file for the last command

Re: Last Command

Ravi_8 — Tue, 24 Jul 2001 12:14:51 GMT

Hi,
the last command list the users who were logged in and exit. to get the current logged in users use 'w' commad. if you don't want to see any last users make it null by #cat /dev/null > /var/adm/wtmp

Re: Last Command

George_14 — Tue, 24 Jul 2001 12:43:50 GMT

I do care about the content. When I execute last command in solaris it shows all the logged users and the users who have acces the system, it doesn't shows the logged out users as still logged in.But in HP ,even though the user(s) is(are) logged out, when I execute last command it shows me the user still logged.