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From: orenalex@bimacs.BITNET (oren alex)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: User tracking utility for PCs
Message-ID: <3357@bimacs.BITNET>
Date: 9 Jun 91 18:43:53 GMT
References: <1991Jun5.201037.7965@ottsun1.uucp>
Reply-To: orenalex@bimacs.UUCP (oren alex)
Organization: Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
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In article <1991Jun5.201037.7965@ottsun1.uucp> pickles@mpr.ca (Clive Pickles) writes:
>Hi,
>
>I am looking for a utility that will log users' signon and signoff time on a
>user-pool MSdos machine...when the machine is powered on, it would ask for
>a user name (password not necessary), and then write to a log file the time
>of signon.  Somehow it would be able to keep track of when the user logged
>off, or turned off the machine.  I know this is a problem, because when the
>machine is turned off it just stops dead.  I suspect that this program would
>write a timestamp to the log file every so often to keep more-or-less up
>to date.  We are not using this for accounting, so the logoff time doesn't
>need to be too accurate - we just need it to find out who was using the
>machine at a given time.
>
>Does this exist?  Is there any PD or Shareware that can do this?  Please
>respond via E-mail.  Thanks.
>
>Clive.
>
>
>--
>===================================================================
>= Clive Pickles - Systems Administrator MPR Teltech Ltd. (Ottawa) =
>= Phone: (613) 787-4159 ------------------ E-mail: pickles@mpr.ca =
>===================================================================

use 4dos, it has a logging feature and some strong extentions to the
batch language (like user input).