NAME¶
rawtmp - display wtmp entries in raw form.
SYNOPSIS¶
rawtmp [-da] [-w wtmp|-] [-X[3|4]d]
[-s start] [-e end] [-b H:M:S]
[--help] [--version]
DESCRIPTION¶
Rawtmp is a utility to dump the raw data in a wtmp or utmp file to the
screen for viewing. It may be useful to anyone who wishes to divine the nature
of the data stored in the wtmp or utmp files. It may also be useful to extract
special wtmp entries that are not documented anywhere (like those netdate puts
in the wtmp file).
If on a logout, when the username is encoded in the ut_user field
by replacing the first character of the username with a null, rawtmp will
print the contents of the user field with a leading dot '.' to denote the
null character. Only agetty and tacacs control software are
currently known to use this logging method.
OPTIONS¶
Rawtmp understands the following command line switches:
- --help
- Outputs a verbose usage listing.
- --version
- Displays the version of rawtmp.
- -w wtmp
- Select a different input file instead of the default
(/var/log/wtmp).
- -X[3]
- Read a wtmp file maintained by versions 3.3 or 3.4 Tacacs terminal server
access control software.
- -X4
- Read a wtmp file maintained by version 4.0 of Tacacs terminal server
access control software.
- -d
- Output the time in MMM DD HH:MM:SS format instead of raw time for a more
human readable form (and to actually know what day you're looking
at!).
- -a
- Print the contents of the ut_addr field (in quad-dotted notation) instead
of using the ut_host field. Note: ut_addr is almost never used and more
than likely contains garbage information.
- -b hours[:minutes[:seconds]]
- Consider only those utmp entries that fall within the last few
hours/minutes/seconds from the current time, disregarding the rest.
- -s start
- Selects the starting date of the report, in mm/dd/yy format.
- -e end
- Selects the ending date of the report, in mm/dd/yy format.
FILES¶
/var/log/wtmp login database.
AUTHOR¶
Steve Baker (ice@mama.indstate.edu)
BUGS¶
Could use some filtering options.