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Subject: ison 4.2 - Be informed when a specified user logs on, Part01/01
Archive-name: ison/part01
Environment: UNIX
Supersedes: ison: Volume 32, Issue 104
Version 4.2 changes:
+ Bug fixed where ison didn't die when you logged off.
+ Manual page added.
+ -j flag added for people who don't want IsOn to auto-background itself.
+ Miscellaneous changes to the source.
IsOn's purpose is to let you know when someone logs on. You could always sit
there at your terminal typing 'finger' or 'who' every 5 minutes, but that's
boring and unproductive. IsOn makes this easy. If you wanted to know the
instant I logged on, all it would take is a simple:
ison mgleason@cse.unl.edu
When I do log on, ison would respond:
** mgleason logged in since Wed Oct 16 02:19:33 1991
IsOn lowers it's priority automatically, so it takes very little CPU, and
spares you the trouble of remembering to use 'nice.' It also puts itself
in the background automatically, as of version 4. For remote addresses
(those in dude@machine.domain format) the 'finger' utility is used, or for
a user on the same machine that you are on, IsOn will simply walk the 'utmp'
file.
Enjoy!
--mike gleason = mgleason@cse.unl.edu