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From: pant@bacchus.eng.temple.edu (Rajiv Pant ( Betul ))
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Q: who fingered my unix account?
Date: 6 Dec 1994 23:25:24 GMT
Organization: Temple University, Academic Computer Services
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I have written a program which guards my .plan file
and whenever a someone tries to open the file, it executes
a program that displays my plan.txt and then execs a shell
script that tells the number of messages in my mailbox.
It works fine when someone tries to finger my account even when
I am not logged in.

My Question: I wrote a perl script to identify the USER &
HOST fingering the account. It does not work. Can someone
tell me / send me a program that saves a list of all the
people who fingered my account ? It would be great if the
program also checks if I am logged in and if I am, it gives
me a message.

Rajiv Pant ( Betul )              pant@astro.ocis.temple.edu