On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 Animesh Singh wrote :

Afternoon Vaibhav= ,

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I need to run a script everytime there is a SS= H

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logout of user

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root.<= = BR>

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Write a daemon to monitor /var/log/= secure. or utmp

data. Please do not rely on any tool which use ut= mp as

source data, as it depends on tool, how it counts

= ;entries in utmp.

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/var/log/secure is= good.

But I do not have /var/log/utmp.

Instead I have /var/lo= g/wtmp, which seems binary (not clear text).

How to read wtmp file, a= nd is this the file u are refering to as utmp, or should I look somewhere e= lse.

Thx.

Vai

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