On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.computer.security, in article
<sheep99dog.2f0dj4@no-mx.unixadmintalk.com>, sheep99dog wrote:
I hope that the idiot who is running this web forum has provided a
place for additional information - such as the name and version of the
operating system you are using, but that information doesn't get to the
Usenet newsgroup where I'm reading and replying to this thread. There
are 38 "branded" UNIX, and that doesn't include the three *BSDs and the
several hundred Linux distributions. They _are_ somewhat different,
and each has it's warts and ways of doing things.
Why does your application have to be running on a terminal in userspace?
Start the application in the boot scripts (in a SystemV init scheme, try
/etc/rc.d/rc.local) - you can mail the data to root as needed, and/or
send the data to the console. There is no need for someone to run a
terminal for this, and depending on your unidentified operating system,
the information _may_ already be available. Try 'apropos accounting'
or 'man -k accounting' and see what is on your system.
Yeah - that's the normal way of doing things
UNIX is not MS-DOS - it really does allow multiple users at the same time.
[compton ~]$ whatis utmp
utmp (5) - login records
[compton ~]$
If your O/S configuration doesn't put data in utmp, stick a line in the
X configuration script that runs in place of /etc/profile on login..
Web Results 1 - 10 of about 17,000,000 for "what is Usenet". (0.30
seconds)
[compton ~]$ grep comp .newsrc | grep -c unix
168
[compton ~]$ grep comp.unix.admin big.8.newsgroups.list.09.15.06
comp.unix.admin Administering a Unix-based system.
[compton ~]$
Old guy
