dump-utmp(8)

dump-utmp8

Print an utmp file in human-readable format.

Usage

dump-acct [{-r | --reverse}] [{-R | --raw}] [{-n | --num recs}] [{-h | --help}] [files]

Overview

dump-acct 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

-h, --help

Prints the usage string and default locations of system files to standard output and exits.

-n, --num recs

Number of lines to print.

-r, --reverse

Start printing from last records.

-R, --raw

Print raw records, not human-readable.

Files

wtmp

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

Releases

15 releases since Debian 2.0 (Hamm); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 2.0–2.1
  2. 2.2
  3. 3.0–3.1
  4. 4.0–5.0
  5. 6.0–9
  6. 10–13

--help since Debian 3.0 (Woody); --num since Debian 3.0 (Woody); --raw since Debian 3.0 (Woody); --reverse since Debian 3.0 (Woody); -R since Debian 3.0 (Woody); -h since Debian 3.0 (Woody); -n since Debian 3.0 (Woody); -r since Debian 3.0 (Woody).

Author

The GNU accounting utilities were written by Noel Cragg <[email protected]>.

This manual page was written by Ognyan Kulev <[email protected]> and updated by Daniel Baumann <[email protected]> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

From acct 6.6.4-8 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.