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From: slootman@dri.nl (Paul Slootman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: LOGNAME, USER variables under Xenix
Message-ID: <1016@dri500.dri.nl>
Date: 26 Apr 91 07:10:04 GMT
References: <4731@peora.sdc.ccur.com>
Organization: DataCount Register Informatici, Wierden, The Netherlands
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In article <4731@peora.sdc.ccur.com> tran@peora.sdc.ccur.com (Nhan Tran) writes:
>
>  When I log in Xenix, running /bin/sh, the environment variable LOGNAME
>and USER are not set.  And Xenix doesn't have whoami command.  Is there
>any quick way to to get users login id other than id command (which you
>have to parse it to get the login id)

Use the command "logname"; that works for me. Xenix also recognizes the
command "who am i" (note the spaces). However, this also gives you the
tty line and login time.

Place this in your .profile:

LOGNAME=${LOGNAME:-`logname`}
USER=${USER:-$LOGNAME}
export LOGNAME USER

This should work. RTFM for sh(1) if you're not clear on what happens
here. Good luck.
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