1.\" Copyright (c) 2010 Ed Schouten <ed@FreeBSD.org> 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.\" $FreeBSD$ 26.\" 27.Dd September 17, 2019 28.Dt WTMPCVT 1 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm wtmpcvt 32.Nd convert wtmp files to the utmpx format 33.Sh SYNOPSIS 34.Nm 35.Ar input 36.Ar output 37.Sh DESCRIPTION 38The 39.Nm 40utility converts traditional 41.Pa wtmp 42user accounting database files to the same format that is used by 43.Pa /var/log/wtmpx . 44This makes it possible to view their contents using existing accounting 45utilities, such as 46.Xr last 1 47and 48.Xr ac 8 . 49.Sh SEE ALSO 50.Xr last 1 , 51.Xr getutxent 3 , 52.Xr ac 8 53.Sh HISTORY 54The 55.Nm 56utility appeared in 57.Fx 9.0 . 58.Sh AUTHORS 59.An \&Ed Schouten Aq Mt ed@FreeBSD.org 60.Sh BUGS 61The application assumes the 62.Ar input 63file has the same byte order as the host system. 64The 65.Ar output 66file can be used on any architecture. 67