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- From: malik@rnch01.dnet.roche.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Logon times
- Message-ID: <32211@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 14:09:06 GMT
- Sender: news@adm.brl.mil
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- I need an accurate way of ascertaining the length of time users are logged
- onto the system and at what terminal device. I have an IRIS-4D running
- IRIX 3.3.1 and the standard UNIX accounting package does not portray what
- is actually happening.
-
- In particular, the /etc/utmp file is useful only for determining who is
- currently logged on and at what terminal. Despite what the documentation
- says (i.e. last(1)), a logout record is not entered in the /etc/wtmp file.
- However if a user is remotely logged on via rlogin(1C), then a "pseudo"
- logout record is generated, which I assume to be an exiting rlogind
- process.
-
- Because a logout record is not generated, last(1) can incorrectly report
- that a session is still active when in fact it is not, or it can incorrectly
- inflate the duration of s session to the point when a new session is
-
- started.
-
-
- Thanks,
- Jeff
-
-
- Jeff Malik
- Hoffmann-La Roche
- Nutley, New Jersey
- malikj@rnisd0.dnet.roche.com
- (201) 235-6557
-