Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 16:59:18 +0000 From: "Frank Shute" <frank@esperance-linux.co.uk> To: "DeadMan Xia ...." <deadmanxia@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unable to Check wtmp file contents for last month. Message-ID: <20061204165918.GA59802@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <dac35acb0612040251u3f33411cqeac742c5e3425be1@mail.gmail.com> References: <dac35acb0612040251u3f33411cqeac742c5e3425be1@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 03:51:16PM +0500, DeadMan Xia .... wrote:
>
> Hello Every1,
>
> well i m using FreeBSD 6.0 with qmail. i usually used to take backups
> remotely.
>
> i want to check the content of wtmp files for last month which was
> overwritten by new wtmp file of current month.
> Any body help me out regarding this
>
> Regards,,,
What does:
# ls -al /var/log | grep wtmp
look like?
What does:
# cat /etc/newsyslog.conf | grep wtmp
look like?
I run qmail and have logs going back 4 months (newsyslog rotates them
once a month).
--
Frank
echo "f r a n k @ e s p e r a n c e - l i n u x . c o . u k" | sed 's/ //g'
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