A tool for dumping wtmp files and patching wtmp records.
Usage
wtmpclean [-l|-r] [-t "YYYY.MM.DD HH:MM:SS"] [-f <wtmpfile>] <user> [<fake>]
Where
- -f, --file Modify instead of /var/log/wtmp
- -l, --list Show listing of logins
- -r, --raw Show the raw content of the wtmp database
- -t, --time Delete the login at the specified time
Examples
wtmpclean --raw -f /var/log/wtmp.1 root
wtmpclean -t "2008.09.06 14:30:00" jekyll hide
wtmpclean -t "2013\.12\.?? 23:.*" hide
wtmpclean -f /var/log/wtmp.1 jekyll
This package uses GNU autotools for configuration and installation.
Run ./configure --help to see a list of available install options.
It is highly likely that you will want to customise the installation location to suit your needs, i.e.:
./configure --prefix=/usr
After ./configure has completed successfully run make install and
you're done!
This tool is written in plain C, making as few assumptions as possible, and sticking closely to ANSI C/POSIX.
This is a list of platforms this nagios plugin is known to compile and run on
- Linux (with kernel 3.6 and glibc 2.16.0)
http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/XPG-Functions.html#XPG-Functions http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getutxent.html
If you find a bug please create an issue in the project bug tracker at https://github.com/madrisan/wtmpclean/issues
This tool uses some POSIX functions that are missing on some platforms: Mac OS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS.