topic who command in Operating System - Linux

who command

nish_1 — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:24:30 GMT

Hi,

'who' command gives the active terminals.Is there any option to see the terminals which are closed on a particular day?for example i want to see all the ttys opened on March 17th.

Re: who command

Goran Koruga — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:22:07 GMT

Hello.

`last' command allows you to access old utmp (wtmp) records.

Regards,
Goran

Re: who command

Kapil Jha — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:19:43 GMT

output is like
]# last
root pts/2 1-241.priv21 Thu Mar 18 17:17 still logged in
root pts/1 1-213.priv21 Thu Mar 18 15:23 still logged in
root pts/2 1-213.priv21 Thu Mar 18 12:11 - 14:32 (02:20)
root pts/1 1-213.priv21 Thu Mar 18 11:14 - 13:30 (02:15)
root pts/4 XXXX Wed Mar 17 17:54 - 17:54 (00:00)

It has various info.
BR,
Kapil+