* James Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I've been running the shell command in backticks, but if I can get a
> Perl way, I would be much happier.

Minus a module to do this on CPAN, you get to parse the binary
/var/run/[wu]tmp files for the information, whose format is
documented in:

man 5 utmp

I believe the Perl Cookbook includes an example program to parse the
said file...

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