Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!hal!nic.MR.NET!tank!mimsy!eneevax!haven!aplcen!wb3ffv!fallst!tkevans From: tkevans@fallst.UUCP (Tim Evans) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Finding the user name via the shell Summary: Not on SCO Xenix 2.2 Keywords: shell variables Message-ID: <484@fallst.UUCP> Date: 7 Dec 88 12:10:54 GMT References: <6323@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <249@tfli.UUCP> Organization: Tim Evans, Fallston, MD Lines: 16 In article <249@tfli.UUCP>, mikej@tfli.UUCP (Michael R. Johnston) writes: > In article <6323@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> mdella@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Marcos R. Della) writes: > >... how to determine the users login name > > The correct answer is to use the variable $LOGNAME. Although the $LOGNAME variable is supported generally on System V *NIX, SCO Xenix 2.2 does _not_ support it. Rather, as I and others have noted here previously, the Xenix _command_ 'logname' (note lowercase) returns the user's login name. -- UUCP: ...!{rutgers|ames|uunet}!mimsy!aplcen!wb3ffv!fallst!tkevans INTERNET: tkevans%fallst@wb3ffv.ampr.org OTHER: ...!attmail!fallst!tkevans Tim Evans 2201 Brookhaven Court, Fallston, MD 21047 (301) 965-3286