l

lastcomm(1)

lastcomm(1)

NAME

lastcomm - show last commands executed in reverse order

SYNOPSIS

lastcomm [commandname] ... [username] ... [terminalname] ...

DESCRIPTION

lastcomm gives information on previously executed commands. If no arguments are speci®ed, lastcomm prints information about all the commands recorded in the accounting ®le, /var/adm/pacct during the current accounting ®le's lifetime. If called with arguments, only accounting entries with a matching command name, user name, or terminal name are printed. For example, to produce a listing of all executions of commands named a.out by user root on terminal ttyd0 use:

lastcomm a.out root ttyd0

For each process entry, the following are printed.

Name of the user who ran the process.

Flags, as accumulated by the accounting facilities in the system.

Command name under which the process was called.

Amount of cpu time used by the process (in seconds).

What time the process started.

Flags are encoded as follows:

SCommand was executed by a user who has appropriate privileges.

FCommand ran after a fork, but without a following exec.

DCommand terminated with the generation of a core ®le.

X Command was terminated with the signal SIGTERM.

FILES

/var/adm/pacct current ®le for per-process accounting

AUTHOR

lastcomm was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.

SEE ALSO

last(1), acct(4), acctsh(1M), core(4).

Section 1422

− 1 −

HP-UX Release 11i: December 2000