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From the man pages :

Last searches back through the file /var/log/wtmp (or the file designated by the -f flag) and displays a list of all users logged in (and out) since that file was created. Names of users and tty’s can be given, in which case last will show only those entries matching the arguments. Names of ttys can be abbreviated, thus last 0 is the same as last tty0.

Lastb is the same as last, except that by default it shows a log of the file /var/log/btmp, which contains all the bad login attempts.

Knowing when the machine was rebooted : $ last reboot reboot system boot 2.6.20-16-generi Sun Aug 5 18:17 - 20:45 (02:27) reboot system boot 2.6.20-16-generi Sun Aug 5 16:32 - 17:37 (01:04) reboot system boot 2.6.20-16-generi Sun Aug 5 14:13 - 15:56 (01:42) reboot system boot 2.6.20-16-generi Sun Aug 5 12:18 - 13:42 (01:24) reboot system boot 2.6.20-16-generi Sun Aug 5 09:48 - 11:27 (01:39) reboot system boot 2.6.20-16-generi Sat Aug 4 21:01 - 00:01 (03:00) reboot system boot 2.6.20-16-generi Fri Aug 3 20:16 - 00:38 (04:22) reboot system boot 2.6.20-16-generi Fri Aug 3 19:35 - 20:15 (00:39) reboot system boot 2.6.20-16-generi Thu Aug 2 23:01 - 00:28 (01:26) reboot system boot 2.6.20-16-generi Thu Aug 2 18:17 - 23:00 (04:42) reboot system boot 2.6.20-16-generi Thu Aug 2 12:30 - 12:53 (00:23) reboot system boot 2.6.20-16-generi Wed Aug 1 22:00 - 23:55 (01:54)



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