"last" command not working properly

[Harri Muttilainen]

Hi!

I have two hp-ux 11.00 L2000 servers on which the last command does not report the logins correctly (at all actually). The /var/adm/wtmp file is growing after each login and I can see with fwtmp that the data is there (dates are wrong though), but the only thing that last command returns is:

wtmp begins Mon Aug 27 10:27

Any ideas?

[Victor BERRIDGE · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You could do a cleanup :
cat /var/adm/wtmp |/usr/sbin/acct/fwtmp > /tmp/ascii_wtmp
vi /tmp/ascii_wtp # correct or delete...
cat /tmp/ascii_wtmp |usr/sbin/acct/fwtmp -ic > /var/adm/wtmp

Just thoughts

All the best
Victor

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

Victor is right see also http://www.dutchworks.nl/htbin/hpsysadmin?h=3&dn=60804&q=%2fvar%2fadm%2fwtmp&fh

[Harri Muttilainen]

Thanks, problem solved!

Regards Harri