On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 10:14:03PM +0200, Vincent Zweije wrote: > As I understand it, the program that puts these entries into the whois > database is called sessreg. Have a look at it; it should be part of > the X startup/shutdown script, at least for xdm. or, if you want to take it a level of abstraction deeper, these programs are all using the utmpx library calls to register the "logins". w, who, last, and finger all use utmpx system calls to tell you about who's currently (or previously) logged in. a while back i wrote a neat little program to query the utmpx databases, called "wuzzah". while the program itself may or may not be helpful for this specific need, the source code would be helpful if you go this direction (and are using a c program). sean --
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