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DUMP-UTMP(8) GNU Accounting Utilities DUMP-UTMP(8)

NAME

dump-utmp - print an utmp file in human-readable format.

SYNOPSIS

dump-utmp [-r|--reverse] [-R|--raw] [-n|--num recs] [-h|--help] [ files]

DESCRIPTION

dump-utmp filename prints a list of all logins. This list is usually written in /var/log/wtmp.

All fields are separated by vertical line. Fields are: user name, tty, type, id, pid, hostaddr, host, time.

OPTIONS

Prints the usage string and default locations of system files to standard output and exits.
Number of lines to print.
Start printing from last records.
Print raw records, not human-readable.

FILES

The system wide login record file. See wtmp(5) for further details.

SEE ALSO

login(1), wtmp(5), init(8), sa(8).

AUTHOR

The GNU accounting utilities were written by Noel Cragg <noel@gnu.ai.mit.edu>.

This manual page was written by Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg> and updated by Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

2006-04-22 6.5.1