On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Ger Hooton <g.hooton at ucc.ie> wrote:
> Hi again,
> When I run the command 'last' I note the following result:
> dilip pts/5 143.239.132.150 Sun Mar 6 17:22 - down (00:50)
>> Is this telling me that the user dilip shoutdown the system?
> OR that a process own by dilip caused the shutdown?
None of the above.
Its just saying that the user was logged in from 17:22 until the point
that the system was shutdown.
It merely means that they were logged in when the system went down. No
blame apportioned by the output of 'last'.
Regards,
Kieran Murphy.
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