Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!att!chinet!randy From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Are there PD programs that... Message-ID: <9727@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 2 Oct 89 18:24:30 GMT References: <5588@tank.uchicago.edu> Reply-To: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix Lines: 20 In article <5588@tank.uchicago.edu> phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes: > (1) start up a daemon that tells me when someone else > logs onto the system? >Would anybody know? >Ivo Welch iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu, phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu We have a user program on chinet called "watch" It was originaly written by someone at m-net in Ann Arbor for a XENIX system. I modified it for SysV. It runs in the background and gives: in: user out: user It takes options to only look at a list of people, turn on/off the bell when a in: or out: happens, and will monitor the activity on a file, in our case /usr/bbs/.party, which is a multiuser party program. Source is available. -- Randy Suess randy@chinet.chi.il.us