Re: last, lastlog, and desktop sessions

2013-08-15 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 3:08 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Joel Rees wrote: > > Joel Rees wrote: > > > I've never been clear about the last command. My memory is that it > > > recorded logins to the desktop as well as to ttyn devices. > > To be pedantic the "last" command isn't recording anything. It

Re: last, lastlog, and desktop sessions

2013-08-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Joel Rees wrote: > Joel Rees wrote: > > I've never been clear about the last command. My memory is that it > > recorded logins to the desktop as well as to ttyn devices. To be pedantic the "last" command isn't recording anything. It is only reporting what has already been recorded. > > Today, I'

Re: last, lastlog, and desktop sessions

2013-08-09 Thread Joel Rees
Okay, I finally decided to log out of my X11 session on my netbook (Fedora) and found that my memory was wrong. last does not report logins to X11 desktop sessions. Is there a command that does? I've been looking around the web, but so far google just tells me that X11 has an error log, which I k

last, lastlog, and desktop sessions

2013-08-02 Thread Joel Rees
I've never been clear about the last command. My memory is that it recorded logins to the desktop as well as to ttyn devices. Today, I'm checking my logs, and I don't see any record of logins to the desktop unless the user also started a shell in a virtual terminal. Has this changed recently? I'm