LASTCOMM(1)						      General Commands Manual						       LASTCOMM(1)

NAME

       lastcomm -  print out information about previously executed commands.

SYNOPSIS

       lastcomm
	      [ command-name ...  ]
	      [ user-name ...  ]
	      [ terminal-name ...  ]
	      [ --strict-match ]
	      [ -f filename | --file filename ]
	      [ --user name ] [ --command name ] [ --tty name ]
	      [ --debug ] [ -V | --version ] [ -h | --help ]

DESCRIPTION

       lastcomm  prints  out information about previously executed commands.  If no arguments are specified, lastcomm will print info about all of
       the commands in acct (the record file).	If called with one or more of command-name, user-name, or terminal-name, only  records	containing
       those items will be displayed.  For example, to find out which users used command `a.out' and which users were logged into `tty0', type:
								   lastcomm a.out tty0

       This  will  print any entry for which `a.out' or `tty0' matches in any of the record's fields (command, name, or terminal).  If you want to
       find only items that match *all* of the arguments on the command line, you must use the '-strict-match' option.	For example, to  list  all
       of the executions of command a.out by user root on terminal tty0, type:
							 lastcomm --strict-match a.out root tty0

       The order of the arguments is not important.

       For each entry the following information is printed:
	  + command name of the process
	  + flags, as recorded by the system accounting routines:
	       S -- command executed by super-user
	       F -- command executed after a fork but without a following exec
	       C -- command run in PDP-11 compatibility mode (VAX only)
	       D -- command terminated with the generation of a core file
	       X -- command was terminated with the signal SIGTERM
	  + the name of the user who ran the process
	  + time the process exited

OPTIONS

       --strict-match
	      Print only entries that match *all* of the arguments on the command line.

       --user name
	      List  records  for  user	with  name.   This is useful if you're trying to match a username that happens to be the same as a command
	      (e.g., ed ).

       --command name
	      List records for command name.

       --tty name
	      List records for tty name.

       -f filename, --file filename
	      Read from the file filename instead of acct

       --debug
	      Print verbose internal information.

       -V, --version
	      Print the version number of lastcomm.

       -h, --help
	      Prints the usage string and default locations of system files to standard output and exits.

FILES

       acct
	      The system wide process accounting file. See acct(5) (or pacct(5)) for further details.

AUTHOR

       The GNU accounting utilities were written by Noel Cragg <noel@gnu.ai.mit.edu>. The man page was adapted from the accounting texinfo page by
       Susan Kleinmann <sgk@sgk.tiac.net>.

SEE ALSO

       last(1), acct(5)

								  1995 October 31						       LASTCOMM(1)