Telling whether the user is at the console
Conor P. Cahill
cpcahil at virtech.uucp
Tue Oct 2 12:15:39 AEST 1990
In article <1990Oct1.204707.21038 at elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> pjs at aristotle.jpl.nasa.gov writes:
>What's the easiest way to tell from (1) a shell script; (2) a C
>program, whether the user process that called either of them was
>logged in at the console? I've looked at /etc/utmp, but it seems
1. tty(1)
2. ttyname(3)
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