> On Monday, April 29, 2002, at 10:58 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [..]
> > ipl of the server and therefore nulls wtmp
> [..]
>
> good God Man! no one uses 'ipl' - it will scare the kiddies....

Is this, like, ancient IBM speak for "reboot"? IPL = "initial program load"?

> That gives me the information I want, the problem is it
> relies on wtmp.  I believe wtmp gets nulled out on an
> ipl of the server and therefore nulls wtmp.  Therefore I
> lose my history.  What I am trying to do is identify
> user IDs that have not been used for say 60 days and get
> rid of them.

Hmm.  On my redhat and solaris boxes, wtmp is automatically logged
elsewhere.  Parsing 'last' for all users would seem to do the trick (for me
at least!)  I am curious as to what platform are you operating here...


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