06-09-2016
Going back and removing significant portions of your earlier posts (that provided information on which responses to those posts were based is VERY BAD FORM! Do Not Do That! People who read this (horrendously long) thread in the future need to be able to see the entire discussion, not a discussion with major chunks of the text removed! (If this isn't acceptable to you, we can remove the thread and ban you from this site.)
We are not your unpaid programming staff. If your boss wants me to rewrite code I have supplied as a method to help you learn how to write code, have your boss send me a private message telling me what changes he or she wants me to make and how much he will pay me to do it. Do not keep changing your requirements and expect us to keep changing code we have suggested to meet new requirements the unnamed "they" want. Do not tell us our code is wrong because we did not supply output that meets your output formatting standards when you never mentioned any output formatting standards before.
I told you exactly what you need to change in this script to append to a log file instead of replace it in an earlier message in this thread. Do I really have to tell you how to do that again? Can't you reread this thread instead of asking us to repeat ourselves?
Are you really unable to figure out how to change your script to use a different pathname for the output log file used by your script? Please try to do this on your own, and show us what you have done if it doesn't work when you try it.
I would not think you would have trouble modifying the printf command in the script I suggested to get your standard output format, although we might be willing to help you add the date and timestamp. I have absolutely no idea why your standard would call for timestamps approximately five and a half months old. If you expect us to help you add seemingly random old timestamps to log entries you are creating, you need to give us exact specifications on what date and time are to be used. Are the dates and timestamps somehow related to one of the timestamps on the invalid files? If these are intended to be current timestamps and you just provided a confusing example, please try using the date utility to capture the data you want to include your log entries instead of just asking us to do it for you. If you show us that you have made an effort to make these changes on your own, but need a little help; we will be happy to help you. If you don't show us that you are willing to try to learn how to do this on your own, we are wasting our time here.
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LAST, LASTB(1) User Commands LAST, LASTB(1)
NAME
last, lastb - show a listing of last logged in users
SYNOPSIS
last [options] [username...] [tty...]
lastb [options] [username...] [tty...]
DESCRIPTION
last searches back through the /var/log/wtmp file (or the file designated by the -f option) and displays a list of all users logged in (and
out) since that file was created. One or more usernames and/or ttys can be given, in which case last will show only the entries matching
those arguments. Names of ttys can be abbreviated, thus last 0 is the same as last tty0.
When catching a SIGINT signal (generated by the interrupt key, usually control-C) or a SIGQUIT signal, last will show how far it has
searched through the file; in the case of the SIGINT signal last will then terminate.
The pseudo user reboot logs in each time the system is rebooted. Thus last reboot will show a log of all the reboots since the log file
was created.
lastb is the same as last, except that by default it shows a log of the /var/log/btmp file, which contains all the bad login attempts.
OPTIONS
-a, --hostlast
Display the hostname in the last column. Useful in combination with the --dns option.
-d, --dns
For non-local logins, Linux stores not only the host name of the remote host, but its IP number as well. This option translates the
IP number back into a hostname.
-f, --file file
Tell last to use a specific file instead of /var/log/wtmp. The --file option can be given multiple times, and all of the specified
files will be processed.
-F, --fulltimes
Print full login and logout times and dates.
-i, --ip
Like --dns , but displays the host's IP number instead of the name.
-number
-n, --limit number
Tell last how many lines to show.
-p, --present time
Display the users who were present at the specified time. This is like using the options --since and --until together with the same
time.
-R, --nohostname
Suppresses the display of the hostname field.
-s, --since time
Display the state of logins since the specified time. This is useful, e.g., to easily determine who was logged in at a particular
time. The option is often combined with --until.
-t, --until time
Display the state of logins until the specified time.
--time-format format
Define the output timestamp format to be one of notime, short, full, or iso. The notime variant will not print any timestamps at
all, short is the default, and full is the same as the --fulltimes option. The iso variant will display the timestamp in ISO-8601
format. The ISO format contains timezone information, making it preferable when printouts are investigated outside of the system.
-w, --fullnames
Display full user names and domain names in the output.
-x, --system
Display the system shutdown entries and run level changes.
TIME FORMATS
The options that take the time argument understand the following formats:
YYYYMMDDhhmmss
YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss
YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm (seconds will be set to 00)
YYYY-MM-DD (time will be set to 00:00:00)
hh:mm:ss (date will be set to today)
hh:mm (date will be set to today, seconds to 00)
now
yesterday (time is set to 00:00:00)
today (time is set to 00:00:00)
tomorrow (time is set to 00:00:00)
+5min
-5days
NOTES
The files wtmp and btmp might not be found. The system only logs information in these files if they are present. This is a local configu-
ration issue. If you want the files to be used, they can be created with a simple touch(1) command (for example, touch /var/log/wtmp).
FILES
/var/log/wtmp
/var/log/btmp
AUTHOR
Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
AVAILABILITY
The last command is part of the util-linux package and is available from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-
linux/>.
SEE ALSO
login(1), wtmp(5), init(8), shutdown(8)
util-linux October 2013 LAST, LASTB(1)