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<blockquote data-quote="Doug Lassiter" data-source="post: 1647561" data-attributes="member: 189925"><p>OK, now I'm really confused. Doing some research, I see it noted that Apple abandoned wtmp long ago (some say 10.4), so that file is usually now found to be empty in modern OSs. The user logs are now resident in /var/log/asl or /var/run/utmpx. Now, I don't have a clue how to conveniently get a listing from those files that last used to supply from wtmp. </p><p></p><p>What is peculiar is that in my 10.6.8 machine, the last command works just fine, and wtmp has plenty of stuff in it. It's my 10.8.5 machine that doesn't want to tell me the login history, and seems to have a perpetually empty wtmp file.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doug Lassiter, post: 1647561, member: 189925"] OK, now I'm really confused. Doing some research, I see it noted that Apple abandoned wtmp long ago (some say 10.4), so that file is usually now found to be empty in modern OSs. The user logs are now resident in /var/log/asl or /var/run/utmpx. Now, I don't have a clue how to conveniently get a listing from those files that last used to supply from wtmp. What is peculiar is that in my 10.6.8 machine, the last command works just fine, and wtmp has plenty of stuff in it. It's my 10.8.5 machine that doesn't want to tell me the login history, and seems to have a perpetually empty wtmp file. [/QUOTE]
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