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04-05-2004

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If you are not running accounting, then you will have a hard time figuring out what processes were running - even if you do have accounting it may be difficult.

You can check out some of the following which may show some information.

last - you can tell who physcially signed into the system (by account) but not what they ran.
syslog - check if syslogd is running on server - then check /etc/syslog.conf to see where it's placing it's information - one file it may put it in is the /var/adm/messages file - this will contain errors/warnings/info

/var/adm/sa/* - you may or may not have files in this directory if sar is running - will give performance of server but not processes running.

If you give more information on what you are looking for, it may be easier for us to point you in the right direction.

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wtmpx

utmpx(4)							   File Formats 							  utmpx(4)

NAME

       utmpx, wtmpx - utmpx and wtmpx database entry formats

SYNOPSIS

       #include <utmpx.h>
       /var/adm/utmpx
       /var/adm/wtmpx

DESCRIPTION

       The utmpx and wtmpx files are extended database files that have superseded the obsolete utmp and wtmp database files.

       The  utmpx database contains user access and accounting information for commands such as who(1), write(1), and login(1). The wtmpx database
       contains the history of user access and accounting information for the  utmpx database.

USAGE

       Applications should not access these databases directly, but should use the functions described on the getutxent(3C) manual page to  inter-
       act with the utmpx and wtmpx databases to ensure that they are maintained consistently.

FILES

       /var/adm/utmpx	 user access and adminstration information

       /var/adm/wtmpx	 history of user access and adminstrative information

SEE ALSO

       getutxent(3C), wait(3C), wait.h(3HEAD)

SunOS 5.11							    6 Mar 2008								  utmpx(4)