When you say you are able to log in the first time, does that mean after the power cycle?
It seems that the system does not complete all startup procedures for whatever reason.
When you have shell prompt, can you check if all the filesystems are availabe, can you
check
Hi
What is the cvs command for getting the diff between the checkin log and tag log.
i am trying
cvs rdiff -s -r <branch Tag> -r <branch> <module>
but it is not giving me the files that were not tagged.
I think it is doing a diff for common files in head and tag.
Please help
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How can view log messages between two time frame from /var/log/message or any type of log files.
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How to check log size every 10min. by script (can use crontab)
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Out put.
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function log2syslog
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pam_lastlog
PAM_LASTLOG(8) Linux-PAM Manual PAM_LASTLOG(8)NAME
pam_lastlog - PAM module to display date of last login
SYNOPSIS
pam_lastlog.so [debug] [silent] [never] [nodate] [nohost] [noterm] [nowtmp] [noupdate] [showfailed]
DESCRIPTION
pam_lastlog is a PAM module to display a line of information about the last login of the user. In addition, the module maintains the
/var/log/lastlog file.
Some applications may perform this function themselves. In such cases, this module is not necessary.
OPTIONS
debug
Print debug information.
silent
Don't inform the user about any previous login, just update the /var/log/lastlog file.
never
If the /var/log/lastlog file does not contain any old entries for the user, indicate that the user has never previously logged in with
a welcome message.
nodate
Don't display the date of the last login.
noterm
Don't display the terminal name on which the last login was attempted.
nohost
Don't indicate from which host the last login was attempted.
nowtmp
Don't update the wtmp entry.
noupdate
Don't update any file.
showfailed
Display number of failed login attempts and the date of the last failed attempt from btmp. The date is not displayed when nodate is
specified.
MODULE TYPES PROVIDED
Only the session module type is provided.
RETURN VALUES
PAM_SUCCESS
Everything was successful.
PAM_SERVICE_ERR
Internal service module error.
PAM_USER_UNKNOWN
User not known.
EXAMPLES
Add the following line to /etc/pam.d/login to display the last login time of an user:
session required pam_lastlog.so nowtmp
FILES
/var/log/lastlog
Lastlog logging file
SEE ALSO pam.conf(5), pam.d(5), pam(7)AUTHOR
pam_lastlog was written by Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>.
Linux-PAM Manual 06/04/2011 PAM_LASTLOG(8)