utmpdump(1) — Linux manual page

UTMPDUMP(1)                   User Commands                  UTMPDUMP(1)

NAME         top

       utmpdump - dump UTMP and WTMP files in raw format

SYNOPSIS         top

       utmpdump [options] [filename]

DESCRIPTION         top

       utmpdump is a simple program to dump UTMP and WTMP files in raw
       format, so they can be examined.  utmpdump reads from stdin
       unless a filename is passed.

OPTIONS         top

       -f, --follow
              Output appended data as the file grows.

       -o, --output file
              Write command output to file instead of standard output.

       -r, --reverse
              Undump, write back edited login information into the utmp
              or wtmp files.

       -V, --version
              Display version information and exit.

       -h, --help
              Display help text and exit.

NOTES         top

       utmpdump can be useful in cases of corrupted utmp or wtmp
       entries.  It can dump out utmp/wtmp to an ASCII file, which can
       then be edited to remove bogus entries, and reintegrated using:

              utmpdump -r < ascii_file > wtmp

       But be warned, utmpdump was written for debugging purposes only.

   File formats
       Only the binary version of the utmp(5) is standardised.  Textual
       dumps may become incompatible in future.

       The version 2.28 was the last one that printed text output using
       ctime(3) timestamp format.  Newer dumps use millisecond precision
       ISO-8601 timestamp format in UTC-0 timezone.  Conversion from
       former timestamp format can be made to binary, although attempt
       to do so can lead the timestamps to drift amount of timezone
       offset.

BUGS         top

       You may not use the -r option, as the format for the utmp/wtmp
       files strongly depends on the input format.  This tool was not
       written for normal use, but for debugging only.

AUTHORS         top

       Michael Krapp

SEE ALSO         top

       last(1), w(1), who(1), utmp(5)

AVAILABILITY         top

       The utmpdump command is part of the util-linux package and is
       available from Linux Kernel Archive 
       ⟨https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/⟩.

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util-linux                      July 2014                    UTMPDUMP(1)

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