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Subject: Re: User login time
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Date: 6 Feb 91 01:27:00 GMT
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Reply-To: mike@bria.UUCP (Michael Stefanik)
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In article <8836@hub.ucsb.edu> ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu!6600bori (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. [...]

A file (usually called /etc/wtmp or /usr/adm/wtmp) is updated by /bin/login;
and on many machines, a "lastlogin" type of file is maintained on both
the last successful and unscuccessful login for users.
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Michael Stefanik                       | Opinions stated are not even my own.
Systems Engineer, Briareus Corporation | UUCP: ...!uunet!bria!mike
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