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Accounting Utilities Manual

3.1 Flags

This program implements the features of regular u*x last with a few extra flags. When last is invoked with no arguments, the output looks like this:

gr151 ttyp2 ray.cs.oberlin.e Tue Feb 16 17:40 still logged in jhoggard ttyp2 csts.cs.oberlin. Tue Feb 16 17:39 - 17:39 (00:00) jstarr ttyp1 UNIX5.ANDREW.CMU Tue Feb 16 17:38 still logged in jberman ttypb 132.162.32.25 Tue Feb 16 17:34 still logged in alee ttyp7 csts.cs.oberlin. Tue Feb 16 17:34 still logged in jbrick ttyp2 ocvaxa.cc.oberli Tue Feb 16 17:33 - 17:36 (00:03) mbastedo ttypc ocvaxa.cc.oberli Tue Feb 16 17:25 - 17:26 (00:01) rgoodste ttypb ocvaxa.cc.oberli Tue Feb 16 17:22 - 17:26 (00:03) huttar ttyp9 lobby.ti.com Tue Feb 16 17:19 still logged in klutz ttyp3 132.162.32.25 Tue Feb 16 17:14 still logged in

--no-truncate-ftp-entries

When printing out the information, don't chop the number part off of ftpxxxx entries.

-number

-n number

--lines number

Limit the number of lines that last prints.

-f filename

--file filename

Read from the file filename instead of the system's wtmp file.

-y

--print-year

Print out the year when displaying dates.

-s

--print-seconds

Print out seconds when displaying dates and durations.

--complain

When the wtmp file has a problem (a time-warp, missing record, or whatever), print out an appropriate error.

-x

--more-records

Print out run level changes, shutdowns, and time changes in addition to the normal records.

-a

--all-records

Print out all records in the wtmp file.

-i

--ip-address

Some machines store the IP address of a connection in a utmp record. Enabling this option makes last print the IP address instead of the hostname.

--tw-leniency value

Set the time warp leniency value (in seconds). See the ac chapter for information.

--tw-suspicious value

Set the time warp suspicious value (in seconds). See the ac chapter for information.

--debug

Print verbose internal information.

-V

--version

Print last's version number.

-h

--help

Print last's usage string and default locations of system files to standard output.