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OSR5 FAQ
I need information from "last", but most of it is gone!
The default root crontab cleans out /usr/adm/sulog, /etc/wtmp and /etc/wtmpx on Sunday mornings. The script that does this is /etc/cleanup.
If your machine is used at the time this script is run, you will want to change the time in crontab. If you want more than 1 week's information in these files, you need to change its frequency or take it out all together.
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Sat May 17 05:35:48 2008: Subject: anonymous
Or - rotate utmp/wtmp/wtmpx log files. No logrotate comes with OSR5 so you might want to write a small shell script to suit your purposes. Then use last with -W to specify filename to view a historical wtmp.
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