NAME

       rawtmp - display wtmp entries in raw form.

SYNOPSIS

       rawtmp [-da] [-w wtmp|-] [-X[3|4]d] [-s start] [-e end] [-b H:M:S] [--help] [--version]

DESCRIPTION

       Rawtmp  is  a  utility  to dump the raw data in a wtmp or utmp file to the screen for viewing.  It may be
       useful to anyone who wishes to divine the nature of the data stored in the wtmp or utmp  files.   It  may
       also  be useful to extract special wtmp entries that are not documented anywhere (like those netdate puts
       in the wtmp file).

       If on a logout, when the username is encoded in the ut_user field by replacing the first character of the
       username  with  a null, rawtmp will print the contents of the user field with a leading dot '.' to denote
       the null character. Only agetty and tacacs control software are  currently  known  to  use  this  logging
       method.

OPTIONS

       Rawtmp understands the following command line switches:

       --help Outputs a verbose usage listing.

       --version
              Displays the version of rawtmp.

       -w wtmp
              Select a different input file instead of the default (/var/log/wtmp).

       -X[3]  Read a wtmp file maintained by versions 3.3 or 3.4 Tacacs terminal server access control software.

       -X4    Read a wtmp file maintained by version 4.0 of Tacacs terminal server access control software.

       -d     Output  the time in MMM DD HH:MM:SS format instead of raw time for a more human readable form (and
              to actually know what day you're looking at!).

       -a     Print the contents of the ut_addr field (in quad-dotted notation) instead  of  using  the  ut_host
              field.  Note: ut_addr is almost never used and more than likely contains garbage information.

       -b hours[:minutes[:seconds]]
              Consider  only  those  utmp  entries  that fall within the last few hours/minutes/seconds from the
              current time, disregarding the rest.

       -s start
              Selects the starting date of the report, in mm/dd/yy format.

       -e end Selects the ending date of the report, in mm/dd/yy format.

FILES

       /var/log/wtmp        login database.

AUTHOR

       Steve Baker (ice@mama.indstate.edu)

BUGS

       Could use some filtering options.

SEE ALSO

       last(1), sac(8)