1.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990 The Regents of the University of California. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)last.1 6.6 (Berkeley) 07/24/90 7.\" 8.Dd 9.Dt LAST 1 10.Os BSD 4 11.Sh NAME 12.Nm last 13.Nd indicate last logins of users and ttys 14.Sh SYNOPSIS 15.Nm last 16.Oo 17.Op Fl Ar \&# 18.Oo 19.Op Fl f Ar file 20.Op Fl h Ar host 21.Op Fl t Ar tty 22.Op user ... 23.Sh DESCRIPTION 24.Nm Last 25will list the sessions of specified 26.Ar users , 27.Ar ttys , 28and 29.Ar hosts , 30in reverse time order. Each line of output contains 31the user name, the tty from which the session was conducted, any 32hostname, the start and stop times for the session, and the duration 33of the session. If the session is still continuing or was cut short by 34a crash or shutdown, 35.Nm last 36will so indicate. 37.Pp 38.Tw Fl 39.Tc Fl f 40.Ws 41.Ar file 42.Cx 43.Nm Last 44reads the file 45.Ar file 46instead of the default, 47.Pa /var/log/wtmp . 48.Tc Fl 49.Ar \&# 50.Cx 51option limits the report to 52.Ar \&# 53lines. 54.Tc Fl t 55.Ws 56.Ar tty 57.Cx 58Specify the 59.Ar tty . 60Tty names may be given fully or abbreviated, e.g., ``last -t 03'' is 61equivalent to ``last -t tty03''. 62.Tc Fl h 63.Ws 64.Ar host 65.Cx 66.Ar Host 67names may be names or internet numbers. 68.Tp 69.Pp 70If 71multiple arguments are given, the information which applies to any of the 72arguments is printed, e.g., ``last root -t console'' would list all of 73``root's'' sessions as well as all sessions on the console terminal. If no 74users, hostnames or terminals are specified, 75.Nm last 76prints a record of 77all logins and logouts. 78.Pp 79The pseudo-user 80.Ar reboot 81logs in at reboots of the system, thus 82``last reboot'' will give an indication of mean time between reboot. 83.Pp 84If 85.Nm last 86is interrupted, it indicates to what date the search has 87progressed. If interrupted with a quit signal 88.Nm last 89indicates how 90far the search has progressed and then continues. 91.Sh FILES 92.Dw /var/log/wtmp 93.Di L 94.Dp Pa /var/log/wtmp 95login data base 96.Dp 97.Sh SEE ALSO 98.Xr lastcomm 1 , 99.Xr utmp 5 , 100.Xr ac 8 101.Sh HISTORY 102.Nm Last 103appeared in 3 BSD. 104