ZNOL
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: July 1, 1988
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NAME
znol - notify via Zephyr upon login or logout of interesting people
SYNOPSIS
znol
[
on|off
] [
-f file
] [
-u username
] [
-l
] [
-q
]
DESCRIPTION
Znol
provides a way for you to be notified when "interesting" people log in
or out. It uses the
Zephyr(1)
Notification Service, which causes a message to appear on your screen
for every person specified in a namelist (which defaults to
$HOME/.anyone). The namelist should have one login name per line. Any
line starting with `#' is considered a comment and ignored.
Anyone in the namelist who is logged in when
znol
is executed is printed to stdout. The control arguments are as
follows:
- on|off
-
Turns notification on or off.
- -f
-
The namelist file is taken to be
file.
If
file
is "-", then the standard input is used instead of a file. If
file
does not exist, an error message is printed, and
znol
exits.
This option may not be used in conjunction with the
-u
option.
- -l
-
Causes
znol
to just list the people in the namelist who are currently logged in,
without subscribing to the login messages. This option may not be used
in conjunction with the
-q
option.
- -q
-
Disables printing who is currently logged in when subscribing. This
option may not be used in conjunction with the
-l
option.
- -u
-
Instead of reading a file to specify the "interesting" users, the next
argument is used as the only "interesting" user. This option may not be
used in conjunction with the
-f
option.
EXAMPLES
znol
reads the standard namelist file, prints the locations of any users
named therein which can be found on the system, and enters subscriptions
for notices about those users.
znol -l -u foo
prints the location (if visible) of the user 'foo'.
FILES
$HOME/.anyone
SEE ALSO
anyone(SIPB), nol(SIPB), zctl(1), zephyr(1), zwgc(1), zhm(8), zephyrd(8)
Project Athena Technical Plan Section E.4.1, `Zephyr Notification
Service'
AUTHOR
Robert S. French (MIT-Project Athena)
RESTRICTIONS
Copyright (c) 1987,1988 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
All Rights Reserved.
zephyr(1)
specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
-
- EXAMPLES
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- FILES
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- SEE ALSO
-
- AUTHOR
-
- RESTRICTIONS
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