As with ls -l, login time in finger output is month, day, and time if the login time is within six months of the current time; otherwise it is month, day, and year. So, if the year or time field contains a colon, you can figure out if the month and day shown are in the current year or the previous year an add it as needed. But, if the login time was more than 6 months ago, there is no way to get the login time unless your version of finger provides an option that allows you to override the default login time output format.
I want to write report for last logon user detials.
If I use finger userid |grep On Since
I would get month date time and year but login time was more than 6 months ago will not display.
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If you use finger userid |grep On Since you're likely to get a diagnostic message like:
And since your output shows that the output from the lines you're trying to match doesn't have Since capitalized, even if you had quoted it correctly you still wouldn't get any output. Perhaps you meant:
which could give you several lines of output for the specified user.
If someone's last login time was more than six months ago, why does it matter what time of day it was for a report like this?
For someone still logged in, unless you are keeping systems up for more than a year and a half without rebooting, the year should be obvious as long as the date the report was generated is included in the report.
To get year thought of using
command but it is taking from /wtmp directory. Also this folder get created every month on 1st date. So If I run last command it shows from Feb 1st 2014.
But I want all active user last logon detials with year
Example - If user logged on Dec 12 2013. If I run report today I wanna get O/P like
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