>Note that wtmp and utmp are not compressed. Just do "man wtmp" to see >the format. There are generally system tools to look through them, too, >"last" being the most common. The man page for wtmp actually will give >you all that information and more.
Sorry what I should have said was that the file formats are not "human readable" rather than compressed. My apologies :-) I am a lazy english man. Please forgive me I was writing off the top of experiences 10++ years old. Interestingly enough one of the first programs I wrote for an HP-UX box was to look at wtmp / utmp for security audit purposes. Tom Information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is the intended solely for the person ( or persons) to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender, and please delete the message from your system immediately. The views in this message are personal, they are not necessarily those of Torbay Council. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
