Script to report linux login yesterday

Create a script for yesterday.. yesterday.sh

#jmazaredo 4-19-2016

#Get the date month and date cut the necessary date 

ystd=$(date --date yesterday | cut -d' ' -f2,3) tdy=$(date --date today | cut -d' ' -f2,3)

#show the date yesterday Month and date 

echo ${ystd} #show the date today Month and date echo ${tdy}

#grep the date try checking the tdy since you may have no login yesterday 

last | grep "$tdy"

Crontab Entry
email it

• 8 * * * /user/yesterday.sh | mail -s "Last Login Yesterday" me@example.net