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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Telling whether the user is at the console
Message-ID: <1990Oct02.021539.3843@virtech.uucp>
Date: 2 Oct 90 02:15:39 GMT
References: <1990Oct1.204707.21038@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
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In article <1990Oct1.204707.21038@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> pjs@aristotle.jpl.nasa.gov writes:
>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

1. tty(1)
2. ttyname(3)

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