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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 08:56:49 MST
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 20:00:43 -0600
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From: gep2@computek.net
Subject: processing utmp and/or wtmp with icon
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
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>We are planning to write a program which converts utmp/wtmp file
into somekind of database (delimitted, flat file would be good enough).
The database is used to produces statistics such as usage, number of logins, how
many hours one has logged in to a system this month, etc.
We want to produce this stats in real time too.
>Actually, I have written this in perl but wanted to make it an executable.
Icon seems to be a natural approach ( don't want to go to C or C++).
Before I start rolling the design, has anybody done this? Any tips.
Does it need to be an actual hard *.EXE file, or is it enough to have it be
"protected" rather than source? For example, SNOBOL4+ produces a *.SAV file
which cannot be readily decompiled. That plus the one .EXE file is sufficient
to run a program. (You could probably rename the interpreter and then patch it
to look for *.OVL instead of *.SAV, and then call it an "executable program with
an overlay") :-)
Alternatively, SPITBOL will generate true .EXE files too...
Gordon Peterson
http://www.computek.net/public/gep2/