Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 21:22:51 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "last" not showing recent login activity Message-ID: <50CF8D2B.6010908@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20121217195511.Horde.WiYpoIyApmatxN7nK60how2@d2ux.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 17/12/2012 18:55, Matthias Petermann wrote: > Hello, > > on one of my systems I just found out that "last" only shows some old > login / logout activity, but not the recent actvities. > > The strange thing... everytime I log into the system, /var/log/utx.log > gets update to the current timestamp (and also grows by some bytes). > > But "last" only shows very old data... > > srv# last -f utx.log -d 20121218 > matthias pts/3 Mon Dec 3 23:32 still > logged in > matthias pts/2 Mon Dec 3 23:31 still > logged in > > Is there any reason why I can't see the recent logins there? Which > component does write data to utx.log - is this done via syslog or a > lower level mechanism? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/168844 Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlDPjTMACgkQ8Mjk52CukIw9hgCdETIYHwpv4hixQV7zqata31v8 6C8An1+5hRSUKq8Ekh3a5oDmoTu1KyBt =mXCo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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