Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!pasteur!agate!brahms.berkeley.edu!cotner From: cotner@brahms.berkeley.edu (Carl Cotner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Help with patching 'login' Keywords: login, patch, accounting Message-ID: <17508@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 29 Nov 88 03:28:10 GMT Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: cotner@brahms.berkeley.edu (Carl Cotner) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 18 I would like to implement a more detailed accounting system than what UNIX offers. Specifically, on the SUNs around here, I'd like a program which prompts the user for a Job Number when he logs in. Depending on what task he'll be performing, he should supply an appropriate Job Number. This JN is then recorded into a local accounting file for further record-keeping. I've seen this implemented before elsewhere; but on that machine, the operators bought UNIX source, so they were able to patch 'login' to query for the JN and record it. Now I'm dealing with SUNs in which the UNIX OS came distributed in binary only, no source. I don't know where to begin to implement this. Does anyone done this before? Carl cotner@brahms.Berkeley.EDU ucbvax!brahms!cotner Carl Cotner/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720