Re: How can a program check to see if user is on console?

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From: Andrew Loewenstern
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:00

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In article <7466@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott) writes:
>I am writing some C code which needs to check to see if the user is logged
>onto the console (i.e., any tty, as long as the user is sitting at the
>console).
>
>What is the easiest way to check to see if this is true?

Reading the /etc/utmp file is the easiest way.  Check the utmp man
page for the format.


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Subject: Re: How can a program check to see if user is on console?
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