There is something called lastlog or just last that does pretty much what u
want; U need not even be root.
Vishal
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip S Tellis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 12:05 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] -Shell Programming
>
>
> On Thu, 6 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Please find this question and answer to me.
>
> Searching...
>
> > ques-> Watching all people logging in and out and report as
> people come and
> > go - a sort of incremental who.
>
> Question found...
> Processing query...
>
> > Also display statistics of people logged in and logged out every 2
> > minutes.
>
> Additional query accepted...
>
> Generating solution...
>
> Why not parse /var/log/messages for lines with (login) in them. It will
> give you the date and time of login as well. You could have something
> like tail -f
>
> For the report, write a small script that does a w -fush and call it from
> a crontab every two minutes.
>
> Philip
>
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