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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat wtmp output Post 302645557 by admin_xor on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 05:08:00 PM
Old 05-23-2012
A better output can be obtained using the "last" command which uses the same /var/log/wtmp command but shows date/time in a better way.

Code:
root     pts/0        hub1-gw.XXXX Tue Aug  2 16:40 - 16:56  (00:16)
reboot   system boot  2.6.38.8-32.fc15 Tue Aug  2 16:39 - 16:56  (00:16)

If I wanted to see what happend on 11th July at around 2PM, I would issue something like this:
Code:
[root@host-6-81 ~]# last | grep "Jul 11 14"
root     pts/1        hub1-gw.xxxx Mon Jul 11 14:10 - 14:16  (00:06)
reboot   system boot  2.6.38.8-32.fc15 Mon Jul 11 14:07 - 14:16  (00:08)
root     pts/0        hub1-gw.xxxx Mon Jul 11 14:08 - crash  (00:00)

Hope this helps.

Last edited by admin_xor; 05-23-2012 at 06:13 PM..
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PTS_QUIT(1)						       AFS Command Reference						       PTS_QUIT(1)

NAME
pts_quit - Exit from pts interactive mode SYNOPSIS
pts quit [-cell] <cell name> [-noauth] [-localauth] [-force] pts q [-c] <cell name> [-n] [-l] [-f] DESCRIPTION
The pts quit command exits from pts interactive mode. The command can be run from the command line or interactively, but on the command line it does nothing and is therefore of questionable utility. CAUTIONS
Prior to OpenAFS 1.4.5 and OpenAFS 1.5.23, the pts quit command was only available on Unix or Linux and when OpenAFS was compiled with the supergroups option (disabled by default). As of OpenAFS 1.4.5 and 1.5.23, it is always available. OPTIONS
Although they have no effect, pts quit takes the following standard pts options: -cell <cell name> Names the cell in which to run the command. For more details, see pts(1). -force Enables the command to continue executing as far as possible when errors or other problems occur, rather than halting execution at the first error. -help Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options are ignored. -localauth Constructs a server ticket using a key from the local /etc/openafs/server/KeyFile file. Do not combine this flag with the -cell or -noauth options. For more details, see pts(1). -noauth Assigns the unprivileged identity anonymous to the issuer. For more details, see pts(1). OUTPUT
This command produces no output. EXAMPLES
Here is an example of a pts interactive session: % pts interactive pts> quit % SEE ALSO
pts(1), pts_interactive(1) COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2007 Jason Edgecombe <jason@rampaginggeek.com> This documentation is covered by the BSD License as written in the doc/LICENSE file. This man page was written by Jason Edgecombe for OpenAFS. OpenAFS 2014-04-08 PTS_QUIT(1)
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