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author | Ondrej Oprala | 2014-04-08 09:48:44 +0200 |
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committer | Karel Zak | 2014-04-14 13:45:59 +0200 |
commit | 38e3e66f700c8eea4f3058e04cc362a62263b696 (patch) | |
tree | 604000df082f2f065148a14486fa3d8d7c0f63f1 | |
parent | sulogin: minor man page improvements (diff) | |
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utmpdump: minor man page improvements
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Oprala <ooprala@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r-- | login-utils/utmpdump.1 | 24 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/login-utils/utmpdump.1 b/login-utils/utmpdump.1 index 70691593f..7a7442a8e 100644 --- a/login-utils/utmpdump.1 +++ b/login-utils/utmpdump.1 @@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ .\" Copyright (C) 2010 Michael Krapp .\" .\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify -.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by .\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or .\" (at your option) any later version. .\" .\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, .\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of -.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the .\" GNU General Public License for more details. .\" .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License @@ -25,16 +25,16 @@ utmpdump [\-frohV] [ filename ] is a simple program to dump UTMP and WTMP files in raw format, so they can be examined. .B utmpdump -eads from stdin unless a +reads from stdin unless a .I filename is passed. .SH OPTIONS .IP "\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-follow\fP" Output appended data as the file grows. .IP "\fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-reverse\fP -Undump, write back edited login information into utmp or wtmp files. +Undump, write back edited login information into the utmp or wtmp files. .IP "\fB\-o\fR, \fB\-\-output\fP \fIfile\fR -Write command output to file instead of standard output. +Write command output to \fIfile\fR instead of standard output. .IP "\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fP" Display help text and exit. .IP "\fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fP" @@ -42,25 +42,25 @@ Display version information and exit. .SH NOTES .B utmpdump can be useful in cases of corrupted utmp or wtmp entries. It can dump -out utmp/wtmp to an ASCII file, then that file can be edited to remove +out utmp/wtmp to an ASCII file, whic can then be edited to remove bogus entries and reintegrated, using -.PP +.PP .RS utmpdump -r < ascii_file > wtmp .RE .PP -but be warned as +but be warned, as .B utmpdump -was written for debugging purpose only. +was written for debugging purposes only. .SH BUGS You may .B not -use the option +use the .B \-r -as the format for the utmp/wtmp files strongly depends on the input +option, as the format for the utmp/wtmp files strongly depends on the input format. This tool was .B not -written for normal use but for debugging. +written for normal use, but for debugging only. .SH AUTHOR Michael Krapp .SH "SEE ALSO" |