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At 2:58 PM -0400 on 3/13/97, David Trueman wrote:
> I am working on extending various routines to deal with terminal servers.
> I am assuming that either a hostname or IP number will be visiable in the
> system "who" output and that if that host matches a pattern that we can
> say tat the user is ona modem.
In case anyone's interested, I wrote a CGI for the Vancouver CommunityNet
that relies on who output that way. So you get stuff like this:
Who's currently using the Vancouver CommunityNet?
User ID Real name Idle time Where
neca + J.P. Conceicao . Dialup
cwillet C. Willet . Dialup
jerrys Jerry Sturge . Telnet
karenina Alvarez Anna Karenina . Telnet
feeline + Dave Palen . Dialup
guest CommunityNet Guest User 0:01 Dialup
The + symbol indicates that the user has a "user profile", aka a .plan
file in their home directory. The downside of this CGI is that it's often
very slow with high system load averages, as the passwd file must be
consulted for each user ID, so I wrote a fast who CGI as well that doesn't
list that info.
Just in case that's of any interest to anyone... we don't use csuite, but
the CGI should work with most Unices and Lynx.
- Neil K. Guy
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