On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 03:34:25PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm currently running FreeBSD 4.10 on a machine at home. Since it is exposed to the > internet (and since I am the only one who should be logging into it), I would like > to have a summary log of all logins (both failed and successful). > > "periodic" shows the the failed logins in the daily summary, but I would also like a > summary of the successful logins. I've "google"-ed, checked the list archives, and > looked at the period.conf man page, but I can't seem to find a way to do what I > want. However, I'm sure I'm not the first person to want this functionality. > > Can periodic be used to get a summary of successful logins? Is there a different > utility that exists? >
I don't think the periodic scripts have that capability. However,
it's fairly simple to get a list of all logins on the system (except,
for some unknown reason those logins via xdm(1) and similar graphical
login managers).
The command to use is last(1) -- note by default that reads
/var/log/wtmp which is recycled each month via newsyslog(8). You can
edit the /etc/daily.local script to get that output included in your
daily e-mails.
Cheers,
Matthew
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