telling rlogin from terminal login (was Re: Is this a logout ?)
Jonathan I. Kamens
jik at athena.mit.edu
Thu Mar 7 11:54:20 AEST 1991
This question has come up before, and the answer is that there is no
portable way of finding out if you're current session is a remote login or a
tty login. In order to be able to help you really effectively, we need to
know what kind of hardware you're using and what operating system it's running.
I can give you an example of how I would do it, though. I almost always log
in under X when I log in on a workstation, so running "who" on a machine into
which I'm logged in on the console will print out a line for me ending in
"(:0.0)". Therefore, I can do something like this (in csh):
set tty = `tty`
set remote = `who | grep "$tty:t" | grep -c -v "(:0.0)"`
I could use one awk process on the last line instead of two greps, but you get
the idea. I could also use one perl process to do the whole thing, including
reading from the utmp file :-).
You could do something like this, if you know what "who" will print for you
whe you're logged in on a terminal and what it will print when you're logged
in remotely.
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