Re: Currently Active (foreground) Console Session

• Subject: Re: Currently Active (foreground) Console Session
• From: henri <email@hidden>
• Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:20:52 +1300
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This got me interested so did some digging on my 10.5 box (my world
is still 99% 10.4 ) combined with some google. You are correct about
10.5 being different - looks like Apple deprecated the old utmp
interface (that used wtmp and lastlog).

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/
man5/wtmp.5.html

If I am reading things correctly, the new utmpx interface stores
stuff in /var/run/utmpx

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/
man5/utmpx.5.html

I didn't figure out how/when that file is rotated, though I'll admit
I only looked for about 10 minutes.

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