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From: pjs@aristotle.JPL.NASA.gov (Peter Scott)
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Subject: Telling whether the user is at the console
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What's the easiest way to tell from (1) a shell script; (2) a C
program, whether the user process that called either of them was
logged in at the console?  I've looked at /etc/utmp, but it seems
that there should be an easier way.

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