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authorOndrej Oprala2014-04-08 09:48:40 +0200
committerKarel Zak2014-04-14 13:45:54 +0200
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last: fix minor typos in the man page
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Oprala <ooprala@redhat.com>
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@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
.\"
.TH "LAST, LASTB" "1" "October 2013" "util-linux" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
-last, lastb \- show listing of last logged in users
+last, lastb \- show a listing of last logged in users
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B last
.RI [ options ]
@@ -29,9 +29,9 @@ last, lastb \- show listing of last logged in users
.RI [ tty ...]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B last
-searches back through the file
+searches back through the
.B /var/log/wtmp
-(or the file designated by the
+file (or the file designated by the
.B \-f
option) and displays a list of all users logged in (and out) since that
file was created. One or more
@@ -57,14 +57,14 @@ The pseudo user
.B reboot
logs in each time the system is rebooted. Thus
.B last reboot
-will show a log of all reboots since the log file was created.
+will show a log of all the reboots since the log file was created.
.PP
.B lastb
is the same as
.BR last ,
-except that by default it shows a log of the file
-.BR /var/log/btmp ,
-which contains all the bad login attempts.
+except that by default it shows a log of the
+.BR /var/log/btmp
+file, which contains all the bad login attempts.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BR \-a , " \-\-hostlast"
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ option.
.TP
.BR \-d , " \-\-dns"
For non-local logins, Linux stores not only the host name of the remote
-host but its IP number as well. This option translates the IP number
+host, but its IP number as well. This option translates the IP number
back into a hostname.
.TP
.BR \-f , " \-\-file " \fIfile\fR
@@ -92,29 +92,29 @@ Print full login and logout times and dates.
.TP
.BR \-i , " \-\-ip"
Like
-.B \-\-dns
-but displays the host's IP number instead of name.
+.B \-\-dns ,
+but displays the host's IP number instead of the name.
.TP
.BI \- number
.TQ
.BR \-n , " -\-limit " \fInumber\fR
-This is a count telling
+Tell
.B last
how many lines to show.
.TP
.BR \-p , " \-\-present " \fItime\fR
Display the users who were present at the specified time. This is
like using the options
+.BR \-\-since " and " \-\-until
+together with the same \fItime\fR.
.TP
.BR \-R , " \-\-nohostname"
Suppresses the display of the hostname field.
-.BR \-\-since " and " \-\-until
-together with the same \fItime\fR.
.TP
.BR \-s , " \-\-since " \fItime\fR
-Display the state of logins since specified
+Display the state of logins since the specified
.IR time .
-This is useful, e.g., to determine easily who was logged in at a
+This is useful, e.g., to easily determine who was logged in at a
particular time. The option is often combined with
.BR \-\-until .
.TP
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ or
.IR iso .
The
.I notime
-variant will not print any timestamp at all,
+variant will not print any timestamps at all,
.I short
is the default, and
.I full