Collecting information about logged in users, boot logs, and boot failures
Collecting information about the operating environment, logged in users, the time for which the computer has been powered on, and boot failures are very helpful. This recipe will go through a few commands used to gather information about a live machine.
Getting ready
This recipe will introduce commands who
, w
, users
, uptime
, last
, and lastb
.
How to do it...
- To obtain information about users currently logged into the machine use:
$ who slynux pts/0 2010-09-29 05:24 (slynuxs-macbook-pro.local) slynux tty7 2010-09-29 07:08 (:0)
This output lists the login name, the TTY used by the users, login time, and remote hostname (or X display information) about logged in users.
Note
TTY ...
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