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> On Monday, April 29, 2002, at 10:58 , gkhgkh@attbi.com wrote: > [..] > > ipl of the server and therefore nulls wtmp > [..] > > good God Man! no one uses 'ipl' - it will scare the kiddies.... Is this, like, ancient IBM speak for "reboot"? IPL = "initial program load"? > That gives me the information I want, the problem is it > relies on wtmp. I believe wtmp gets nulled out on an > ipl of the server and therefore nulls wtmp. Therefore I > lose my history. What I am trying to do is identify > user IDs that have not been used for say 60 days and get > rid of them. Hmm. On my redhat and solaris boxes, wtmp is automatically logged elsewhere. Parsing 'last' for all users would seem to do the trick (for me at least!) I am curious as to what platform are you operating here...Thread Previous | Thread Next