Hi, Last command is very useful but it would be better if I will know what file does this information resides?
What I am thinking is if the data resides in a file, I could get it by making a perl script that will read a "log file" and parse it line by line just like how i could see it when I type the "last" command. --- Robert C Wittig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Felix T. Gomez, Jr. wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Thank you for the tips although if somebody could > > still give me more inputs about this I would > > appreciate it very much. > > > > My initial plan is to make a C program that will > run > > the "last" command and get the number of hours of > the > > currently logged users. > > > > Since the users can log in/out in a day and log > in/out > > again in another day, the hours/minutes of usage > will > > be accumulated thus I need to create a "database" > for > > it. > > > > I guess this is not a big project, only that I > have > > little idea on where to begin. > > > > I would probably just write a shell or perl script, > as opposed to using C. > > Once you have the raw data that you require, culled > from 'last' and > whatever other files you cull, all you have to do is > write a script > that extracts the important stuff and re-formats it > into a report, the > way you want to see it. In the past, I have used > perl to write up nice > HTML reports, that can then be read in the browser. > > Being lazy, I probably would just write the script > so that it kept a > running total of the values that I wanted to be > cumulative, from one > report to the next, in a set of variables whose > values were retained, > when the script stopped running, and added to the > next total, each > time the script ran. > > > > -- > -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ > http://robertwittig.net/ > http://robertwittig.org/ > . > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. http://games.yahoo.com/games/front To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
