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32.\"	From: @(#)lastcomm.1	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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35.Dd September 18, 1996
36.Dt LASTCOMM 1
37.Os
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm lastcomm
40.Nd show last commands executed in reverse order
41.Sh SYNOPSIS
42.Nm
43.Op Fl EScesu
44.Op Fl f Ar file
45.Op Ar command ...\&
46.Op Ar user ...\&
47.Op Ar terminal ...\&
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49The
50.Nm
51utility gives information on previously executed commands.
52With no arguments,
53.Nm
54prints information about all the commands recorded
55during the current accounting file's lifetime.
56.Pp
57The following options are available:
58.Bl -tag -width indent
59.It Fl E
60Print the time the process exited.
61.It Fl S
62Print the time the process started.
63.It Fl c
64Print the amount of cpu time used by the process.
65.It Fl e
66Print the amount of elapsed time used by the process.
67.It Fl s
68Print the amount of system time used by the process.
69.It Fl u
70Print the amount of user time used by the process.
71.It Fl f Ar file
72Read from
73.Ar file
74rather than the default
75.Pa /var/account/acct .
76.El
77.Pp
78If no options are specified,
79.Fl cS
80is assumed.
81If
82.Nm
83is invoked with arguments, only accounting entries with a
84matching
85.Ar command
86name,
87.Ar user
88name,
89or
90.Ar terminal
91name
92are printed.
93For example:
94.Pp
95.Dl lastcomm a.out root ttyd0
96.Pp
97would produce a listing of all the
98executions of commands named
99.Pa a.out
100by user
101.Ar root
102on the terminal
103.Ar ttyd0 .
104.Pp
105For each process entry, the following are printed.
106.Pp
107.Bl -bullet -offset indent -compact
108.It
109The name of the user who ran the process.
110.It
111Flags, as accumulated by the accounting facilities in the system.
112.It
113The command name under which the process was called.
114.It
115The amount of
116CPU
117.Pq Fl c ,
118wall
119.Pq Fl e ,
120system
121.Pq Fl s ,
122or user
123.Pq Fl u
124time used by the process (in seconds).
125.It
126The time the process started
127.Pq Fl S
128or exited
129.Pq Fl E .
130.El
131.Pp
132The flags are encoded as follows: ``S'' indicates the command was
133executed by the super-user, ``F'' indicates the command ran after
134a fork, but without a following
135.Xr exec 3 ,
136.\" ``C'' indicates the command was run in PDP-11 compatibility mode
137.\" (VAX only),
138``D'' indicates the command terminated with the generation of a
139.Pa core
140file, and ``X'' indicates the command was terminated with a signal.
141.Sh FILES
142.Bl -tag -width /var/account/acct -compact
143.It Pa /var/account/acct
144default accounting file
145.El
146.Sh SEE ALSO
147.Xr last 1 ,
148.Xr sigvec 2 ,
149.Xr acct 5 ,
150.Xr core 5
151.Sh HISTORY
152The
153.Nm
154command appeared in
155.Bx 3.0 .
156