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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!relay.philips.nl!misf1!gvrooij From: gvrooij@ms.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij) Subject: Re: ?Perl/C access to wtmp,utmp? Message-ID: <1994May24.090558.9473@ms.philips.nl> Sender: news@ms.philips.nl Organization: Philips Medical Systems, Best X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <Cq8tnv.EvA@scu.edu.au> Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 09:05:58 GMT Lines: 13 Philip Shepherd (pshepher@scu.edu.au) wrote: : Is there any easy way to access the info stored in the 'wtmp' and 'utmp' : files from Perl or C? : In particular, I'm interested in the number of minutes a user has been : logged in ... this CAN be deduced from the 'login at' field of the 'w' : command but ends up being very inefficient (especially in perl). You can open HANDLE "last|" and look at teh output of the last command. -Guido