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Subject: | Re: /var/log/wtmp problem |
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From: | Jurgen Defurne <jurgen DOT defurne AT philips DOT com> |
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Date: | Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:13:49 +0200 |
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Do you happen to know from which package 'last' is part ? I will need to build this program myself, because I am unable to upgrade my Cygwin environment and install the package (due to operational constraints). Thanks for the info, Jurgen. René Berber <rberber AT prodigy DOT net DOT mx> Sent by: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com 2005-09-12 09:15 AM To cygwin AT cygwin DOT com cc Subject Re: /var/log/wtmp problem Classification Jurgen Defurne wrote: > Hello, > > Can someone explain for what /var/log/wtmp is used ? > > It seems that this file grows very quickly in our Cygwin environment, and > I > want to find out which programs write to this file. /var/log/wtmp gets > an update almost every two seconds here. > > We do not use very much programs, I think this covers the complete > list : > - screen (no reference to wtmp found in info) > - bash (standard shell) > - Perl (background programs/ exec ?) > - ssh > - rxvt > - watch You can find some info about it in man last: NAME last, lastb - show listing of last logged in users SYNOPSIS last [-R] [-num] [ -n num ] [-adiox] [ -f file ] [name...] [tty...] lastb [-R] [-num] [ -n num ] [ -f file ] [-adiox] [name...] [tty...] DESCRIPTION Last searches back through the file /var/log/wtmp (or the file desig- nated by the -f flag) and displays a list of all users logged in (and out) since that file was created. Names of users and tty's can be given, in which case last will show only those entries matching the arguments. Names of ttys can be abbreviated, thus last 0 is the same as last tty0. ... If your wtmp is growing that much you have a problem I haven't seen, take a look at the output of "last | head" . HTH -- René Berber -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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