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Author Tracking down odd wtmp entries
sinister

2004-10-31, 5:49 pm

I'm using SunOs 5.9 (Sparc).

I noticed some odd entries in the log file
/var/adm/wtmpx
(seems that often this file is named /var/adm/wtmp on other systems). A few
times over the last month it shows someone connecting to my non-root
account, but the hostnames shown by
last -a
are definitely not ones I would be connecting from.

Is there any way to get more logging information, e.g. an IP address instead
of just a hostname, from this or other log files?


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