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

Last Login

B.Mahendra Kumar_2 — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 22:35:22 GMT

Dear All,

Is it possible to find out the last login by using the IP address, If so can you please let me know how to go about it.

TIA
MKBS

Re: Last Login

morganelan — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 22:45:03 GMT

Try this:
#last -R or
#lastb -R

Re: Last Login

Patrick Wallek — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 22:47:58 GMT

The 'last -R' command will show logins and the IP address OR host name that they came from.

So, use 'last -R' and grep for the appropriate IP address or hostname.

Re: Last Login

B.Mahendra Kumar_2 — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 22:51:00 GMT

Dear all,

Thanks for reply, I made a lastb -R | grep IP and it gave the output...I know this might be a very silly question...It just slipped out of mind. Any how thanks for the quick response...

Re: Last Login

Arunvijai_4 — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 22:52:25 GMT

The lastb command searches backwards through the database file /var/adm/btmp to display bad login information.

The last command searches backwards through the file /var/adm/wtmp (which contains a record of all logins and logouts) for information about a user, a tty, or any group of users and ttys.

(Taken from #man last)

-- Arun

Re: Last Login

B.Mahendra Kumar_2 — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 23:03:28 GMT

Thanks morg,patrick and arun...

I got the solution from the lastb command...

Its nice to be in the circle:)