[plug] login stats

[Jason Nicholls]

G'day,

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:49:21PM +0800, Denis Brown wrote:
> This may differ between distributions but my man page for "last" shows a 
> pseudo user called "reboot" which apparently defines the time of reboot.  I 
> can't tell whether that will do what you want, though, because my wtmp file 
> does not go back (the 390-odd days) to my last reboot.

Yup, take a look at my last log (on a rh6.1 system):

[jason at nikita jason] last -f /var/log/wtmp.1 
web      pts/11       localhost        Fri Sep 29 23:11 - 23:12  (00:00)    
jason    tty1                          Tue Sep 26 18:13   still logged in   
reboot   system boot  2.2.16-3         Tue Sep 26 18:13         (8+19:36)   

I had to reboot when installing the 2.2.16 kernel (and then again when I
recompiled).


Also Bret. If you can't get bash to find the total session times, might I
suggest a more powerful scripting language like ark or perl. In other words, 
try harder.


Later,

Jason Nicholls
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