tag 18365 notabug close 18365 stop On 08/30/2014 05:37 PM, Allen.Shepherd wrote: > Hi we cannot retrieve the login name with the below version while running > with nohup. > Is there any workaround available? > Thanks, > > > host.com(oracle:NONE)/: logname --version > logname (GNU coreutils) 5.97 > Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of > the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. > Written by FIXME: unknown.
POSIX states that logname should be a simple wrapper around getlogin(): http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/logname.html getlogin() may fail on some systems if stdin is redirected from the controlling tty thanks, Pádraig.
