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From: jfh@greenber.austin.ibm.com (John F Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: REMOTEHOST
Message-ID: <6034@awdprime.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 91 23:53:04 GMT
References: <1991Mar20.185405.5746@nrcnet0.nrc.ca>
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In article <1991Mar20.185405.5746@nrcnet0.nrc.ca> ng@cfd.di.nrc.ca writes:
>In AIX/RS6000, is there a way to find out from where you are actually
>login'ed ? In other unix like Iris, there is conveniently a shell
>variable REMOTEHOST set for you. However I can't find anything equivalent
>in aix.

You can get this information either from /etc/utmp (if you are looking
for a C solution) or straight out of the "who" command if shell will
do for you.

This is what I get on this machine -

% who | grep jfh
jfh         pts/9       Mar 20 16:01          (snowball.austin.)

Regrettably you don't get all of it because the u_host field is only
16 characters long.
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