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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
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Subject: Re: User login time
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Date: 5 Feb 91 06:57:27 GMT
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In article <8836@hub.ucsb.edu> 6600bori@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Boris Burtin) writes:
>I have been assigned by my company the task of writing a C program on a Sun  
>Sparcstation 1+ that will keep a user log.  The general idea is that it 
>determines when they logged on and off, and writes the information to a file.

SunOS already maintains just such a file.  Try the "last" command.
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