NAME

utmpdump - dump UTMP and WTMP files in raw format

SYNOPSIS

utmpdump [-frh] [ filename ]

DESCRIPTION

utmpdump is a simple program to dump UTMP and WTMP files in raw format, so they can be examined. utmpdump eads from stdin unless a filename is passed.

OPTIONS

-f, --follow: Output appended data as the file grows.
-r, --reverse: Undump, write back edited login information into utmp or wtmp files.
-h, --help: Print a help text and exit.
-V, --version: Output version information and exit.

NOTES

utmpdump can be useful in cases of corrupted utmp or wtmp entries. It can dump out utmp/wtmp to an ASCII file, then that file can be edited to remove bogus entries and reintegrated, using

utmpdump -r < ascii_file > wtmp

but be warned as utmpdump was written for debugging purpose only.

BUGS

You may not use the option -r as the format for the utmp/wtmp files strongly depends on the input format. This tool was not written for normal use but for debugging.

AUTHOR

Michael Krapp

AVAILABILITY

The utmpdump command is part of the util-linux package and is available from Linux Kernel Archive.