debian man page for wcat

WCAT(1) 							   User Commands							   WCAT(1)

NAME
       wcat - printout wtmp entries

SYNOPSIS
       wcat [-w wtmp|-] [-adX[3|4]] [-s start] [-e end] [-b H[:M[:S]]] [--help] [--version]

SYNOPSIS
       Wcat provides an easy way to recover trimmed information from wtmp binary files. This tool can be useful for scripts that need only partial
       information from them.

       Notice that wcat output is binary wtmp entries so if this information is printed out to a terminal or screen it might mess it up. A  better
       use of wcat would be: wcat | rawtmp -w -

OPTIONS
       -w wtmp|-
	      Read alternate wtmp file.

       -X[3]  Read tacacs 3.x wtmp format.

       -X4    Read tacacs 4.0 wtmp format.

       -d     Output time in MMM DD HH:MM:SS date format.

       -a     Print contents of ut_addr (if it exists) instead of ut_host.

       -s start
	      Display accounting info from `start'.

       -e end Display accounting info up to `end'.

       -b H:M:S
	      Show accounting info from the last few hours/minutes/seconds.

       --help Print this help message.

       --version
	      Print the version of rawtmp.

SEE ALSO
       sac(8), ac(1), last(1), rawtmp(1), wtmp(5), netdate(8L)

FILES
       /var/log/wtmp		      login database
       /usr/adm/radacct/.../detail    Radius accounting logs

AUTHOR
       The upstream author of wcat is Steve Baker (ice@mama.indstate.edu)

       This manpage was written by Javier Fernandez-Sanguino based on help2man for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but can be used by others).

wcat v1.0 (c) 2001 by Steve Baker				   January 2003 							   WCAT(1)