psm@manta.NOSC.MIL (Scot Mcintosh) (06/09/91)
On BSD Unix, finger will report where someone is logged in from: Login Name TTY Idle When Where me John Smith p1 Sat 12:34 snoopy ^^^^^^^ Where does it get this information?
gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) (06/12/91)
psm@manta.NOSC.MIL (Scot Mcintosh) writes: >On BSD Unix, finger will report where someone is logged in from: >Login Name TTY Idle When Where >me John Smith p1 Sat 12:34 snoopy > ^^^^^^^ > Where does it get this information? I believe that this info is kept in a couple of system files, "utmp" and "wtmp". Try doing a man on them. --- John Gordon Internet: gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu #include <disclaimer.h> gordon@cerl.cecer.army.mil #include <clever_saying.h>