Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:55:11 +0100 From: Matthias Petermann <matthias@d2ux.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: "last" not showing recent login activity Message-ID: <20121217195511.Horde.WiYpoIyApmatxN7nK60how2@d2ux.org>
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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? Thanks, Matthias
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