Bug 771653 - RFE: Extend output of "last" command to show ip address AND hostname
Summary: RFE: Extend output of "last" command to show ip address AND hostname
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: sysvinit
Version: 18
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Lukáš Nykrýn
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-01-04 13:35 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2014-02-05 22:44 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-02-05 22:44:13 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2012-01-04 13:35:21 UTC
Description of problem:
The "last" command is historically limited to showing a truncated hostname by default, but this can be changed on a per-program basis to show a full ip address.

The purpose of the command is to show who logged into a system at a given point in time. The hostname shows the reverse lookup of the ip at that point in time and is therefore extremely useful.

Presumably backwards compatibility will not be an issue since an ipv6 address will also not fit in this field.

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Comment 1 Petr Lautrbach 2012-01-04 13:45:15 UTC
Would '-w' option work for you?

[root@f16-devel ~]# last -n 1
root     pts/0        master-long-long Wed Jan  4 14:39   still logged in

[root@f16-devel ~]# last -w -n 1
root     pts/0        master-long-long-string-very-log.virt Wed Jan  4 14:39   still logged in

Comment 2 Need Real Name 2012-01-04 22:26:58 UTC
The -w option is definitely useful to know, but what I'm looking for is seeing information about what hostname belonged to the ip address (and vice versa) at the time of the login. i.e. both ip and hostname at time of login

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