editing the AIX /var/adm/wtmp file

I can’t see any useful reason, but if You like to modify the output of the “last” command on an AIX system, You can convert to an ASCII file the /var/adm/wtmp file, editing it and then rebuild it. E.g.

/usr/sbin/acct/fwtmp < /var/adm/wtmp > /tmp/temp.file
vi /tmp/temp.file
/usr/sbin/acct/fwtmp -ic < /tmp/temp.file > /var/adm/wtmp
rm /tmp/temp.file

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One Response to “editing the AIX /var/adm/wtmp file”

  1. parentingunion says:
    December 22, 2017 at 15:40

    De esta manera, el inspector que se desplaza hasta el centro de trabajo
    verifica que no se supere el máximo legal de horas trabajadas; como la conveniente remuneración y cotización de estas.

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