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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!grivel!alsvid.scu.edu.au!pshepher From: pshepher@scu.edu.au (Philip Shepherd) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: ?Perl/C access to wtmp,utmp? Message-ID: <Cq8tnv.EvA@scu.edu.au> Date: 23 May 94 06:50:19 GMT Organization: Southern Cross University Lines: 12 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Is there any easy way to access the info stored in the 'wtmp' and 'utmp' files from Perl or C? In particular, I'm interested in the number of minutes a user has been logged in ... this CAN be deduced from the 'login at' field of the 'w' command but ends up being very inefficient (especially in perl). -- Philip Shepherd Internet: phil@scu.edu.au Southern Cross University Lismore NSW Australia