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From: davec@shared.uucp (Dave Close)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: REMOTEHOST
Message-ID: <1991Mar25.033549.30276@shared.uucp>
Date: 25 Mar 91 03:35:49 GMT
References: <1991Mar20.185405.5746@nrcnet0.nrc.ca> <6034@awdprime.UUCP> <1991Mar21.140213.8928@nrcnet0.nrc.ca>
Organization: Shared Financial Systems, Dallas, TX
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In article <1991Mar21.140213.8928@nrcnet0.nrc.ca> ng@cfd.di.nrc.ca writes:
>In article <6034@awdprime.UUCP>, jfh@greenber.austin.ibm.com (John F Haugh II) writes:
>|> 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 ?
>|> 
>The who command would work only in a few cases. It fails if you have login'ed
>more than once from more than 1 place; or as you suggested the remote host
>name is long. On top of that 'who' has a bug, which I hope it is fixed in
>3003, that it still lists, quite often, users who have logoff'ed.

'who' also doesn't work if the user is logged-in via rexec or rsh.

Re logged-out users, the utmpcln program posted a while ago seems to run fine
on AIX.  Sorry, I forget which group had the posting.
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