NAME

lastcomm − display the last commands executed, in reverse order

SYNOPSIS

lastcomm [ command-name ] ... [ user-name ] ... [ terminal-name ] ...

DESCRIPTION

The lastcomm command gives information on previously executed commands.  lastcomm with no arguments displays information about all the commands recorded during the current accounting file’s lifetime.  If called with arguments, lastcomm only displays accounting entries with a matching command-name, user-name, or terminal-name.

If terminal-name is `- -´ there was no controlling TTY for the process.  The process was probably executed during boot time.  If terminal-name is `??´, the controlling TTY could not be decoded into a printable name. 

EXAMPLES

The command:

example% lastcomm a.out root term/01

produces a listing of all the executions of commands named a.out, by user root while using the terminal term/01. 

The command:

example% lastcomm root

produces a listing of all the commands executed by user root. 

For each process entry, lastcomm displays the following items of information:

• The command name under which the process was called. 

• One or more flags indicating special information about the process.  The flags have the following meanings:

F The process performed a fork but not an exec. 

S The process ran as a set-user-id program. 

• The name of the user who ran the process. 

• The terminal which the user was logged in on at the time (if applicable). 

• The amount of CPU time used by the process (in seconds). 

• The date and time the process exited. 

FILES

/var/adm/pacct accounting file

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

SEE ALSO

last(1), sigvec(3B), acct(4), core(4), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.6  —  Last change: 18 Mar 1994