On Monday, April 29, 2002, at 10:58 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[..]
> ipl of the server and therefore nulls wtmp
[..]

good God Man! no one uses 'ipl' - it will scare the kiddies....

Wags is correct that what you want to do is build a db solution,
most likely something with the tie....

since what you are trying to do is parse out when they were last
observed - hence a decent should would be a cron job that fires
nightly to

        a) update the DB
        b) traverse the DB for

                b1: person not logged in for K days
                b2: accounts no longer in the nis/nisplus/LDAP/userManagementTool

I would of course recommend that you do flat last - and cache when
you saw the data....

        my $lastTag =getLastTag();

        open(FH, "last |")....

        while (<FH>) {
                last if /$lastTag/ ;
                #scarf up data for post processing
                .....

        }



ciao
drieux

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