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Commands using last

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last reboot
2011-10-20 07:45:47
User: madd
Functions: last
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Get the time and date of the last server reboot

- shorter

- more readable

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last reboot
2011-10-20 07:44:08
User: madd
Functions: last
0
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Get the time and date of the last server reboot
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netstat -atn | perl -0777 -ne '@ports = /tcp.*?\:(\d+)\s+/imsg ; for $port (32768..61000) {if(!grep(/^$port$/, @ports)) { print $port; last } }'
2010-12-14 20:44:37
User: bashrc
Functions: last netstat perl
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find an unused unprivileged TCP port

Not really better - just different ;)

There's probably a really simple solution out there somewhere...

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git last commit on a file.
2010-11-19 23:17:13
User: joeyrobert
Functions: last
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git log -n 1 -p FILENAME| head -n 1 | awk -F " " '{print $2}'
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( last ; ls -t /var/log/wtmp-2* | while read line ; do ( rm /tmp/wtmp-junk ; zcat $line 2>/dev/null || bzcat $line ) > /tmp/junk-wtmp ; last -f /tmp/junk-wtmp ; done ) | less
2010-03-16 04:17:16
User: DoNotRememberMe
Functions: last ls read rm zcat
Tags: last command wtmp
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See a full last history by expanding logrotated wtmp files

When your wtmp files are being logrotated, here's an easy way to unpack them all on the fly to see more than a week in the past. The rm is the primitive way to prevent symlink prediction attack.

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last
2009-08-29 12:08:30
User: unixbhaskar
Functions: last
Tags: login shell
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This command will tell the last login and reboot related information

This command will reveal login has been made to the system as well as when the reboot occurs. It uses a file called /var/log/wtmp,which captures all the information about the successful login and reboot information. It has many switch ,by which you can get an idea when people login how long they stay.

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last reboot
2009-08-19 11:04:34
User: theIndianMaiden
Functions: last
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how long system has been running
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last -n 20
2009-05-26 22:09:09
User: jipipayo
Functions: last
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Show the last 20 sessions logged on the machine

change 20 by the number of sessions you want to know (20 it's fair enough)

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last reboot
2009-02-20 19:21:40
User: jyoder
Functions: last
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Find out the last times your system was rebooted (for the duration of wtmp).
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last | grep -v "^$" | awk '{ print $1 }' | sort -nr | uniq -c
2009-02-18 16:38:59
User: hkyeakley
Functions: awk grep last sort uniq
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Quick glance at who's been using your system recently

This command takes the output of the 'last' command, removes empty lines, gets just the first field ($USERNAME), sort the $USERNAMES in reverse order and then gives a summary count of unique matches.

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last | awk '$1!~/wtmp/{logs[$1]++}END{for (i in logs) print i, logs[i]}'
2009-02-07 18:43:33
User: mnikhil
Functions: awk last
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to get how many users logged in and logged out and how many times purely using awk
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last | awk '{ print $1 }' | sort | uniq -c | grep -v wtmp
2009-02-07 18:42:59
User: mnikhil
Functions: awk grep last sort uniq
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To get how many users logged in and logged out and how many times ?
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