pickles@mpr.ca (Clive Pickles) (06/06/91)
Hi, I am looking for a utility that will log users' signon and signoff time on a user-pool MSdos machine...when the machine is powered on, it would ask for a user name (password not necessary), and then write to a log file the time of signon. Somehow it would be able to keep track of when the user logged off, or turned off the machine. I know this is a problem, because when the machine is turned off it just stops dead. I suspect that this program would write a timestamp to the log file every so often to keep more-or-less up to date. We are not using this for accounting, so the logoff time doesn't need to be too accurate - we just need it to find out who was using the machine at a given time. Does this exist? Is there any PD or Shareware that can do this? Please respond via E-mail. Thanks. Clive. -- =================================================================== = Clive Pickles - Systems Administrator MPR Teltech Ltd. (Ottawa) = = Phone: (613) 787-4159 ------------------ E-mail: pickles@mpr.ca = ===================================================================
orenalex@bimacs.BITNET (oren alex) (06/10/91)
In article <1991Jun5.201037.7965@ottsun1.uucp> pickles@mpr.ca (Clive Pickles) writes: >Hi, > >I am looking for a utility that will log users' signon and signoff time on a >user-pool MSdos machine...when the machine is powered on, it would ask for >a user name (password not necessary), and then write to a log file the time >of signon. Somehow it would be able to keep track of when the user logged >off, or turned off the machine. I know this is a problem, because when the >machine is turned off it just stops dead. I suspect that this program would >write a timestamp to the log file every so often to keep more-or-less up >to date. We are not using this for accounting, so the logoff time doesn't >need to be too accurate - we just need it to find out who was using the >machine at a given time. > >Does this exist? Is there any PD or Shareware that can do this? Please >respond via E-mail. Thanks. > >Clive. > > >-- >=================================================================== >= Clive Pickles - Systems Administrator MPR Teltech Ltd. (Ottawa) = >= Phone: (613) 787-4159 ------------------ E-mail: pickles@mpr.ca = >=================================================================== use 4dos, it has a logging feature and some strong extentions to the batch language (like user input).