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m3nhir

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From: Torino - Italy

Registered: 2020-04-03

Posts: 33

[solved] "last" command does not update

Running the "last" command from shell this does not return me the user logins updated, but only some time ago, almost a month old. What do I need to do to update that report? or is there an alternative command to find out which users are last logged in.
Thanks

Last edited by m3nhir (2023-11-29 21:52:46)

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dogknowsnx

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Registered: 2021-04-12

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Re: [solved] "last" command does not update

Check whether it's only truncated due to your terminal's scrollback limit:

last | head -n 10

EDIT:
or

last | less

for that matter...

Last edited by dogknowsnx (2023-11-29 18:38:55)

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Head_on_a_Stick

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From: London

Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: [solved] "last" command does not update

Can we see

stat /var/log/wtmp

As for alternatives, see this horribly hacky script example: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/last-comman … ve/98548/4

Don't know of any other equivalent commands though.

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m3nhir

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From: Torino - Italy

Registered: 2020-04-03

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Re: [solved] "last" command does not update

Thanks for your help, to check the latest accesses I used:

 last -F -n 10

I tried running it as root, indicating the user and it worked fine.
After I ran it as a normal user it gave me the correct data. I didn't understand the anomaly at first but I solved it.

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