DEC5000/200 .login file question

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2 total messages Started by John D. Hansen Thu, 16 Dec 1993 04:49

#8890

Author: John D. Hansen
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1993 04:49

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This should be a simple question:

I have a DECstation 5000/200 running ULTRIX 4.3.  There are several
tasks that I want the .login file to do only when I am sitting at
the console.

On our Sun workstations this is accomplished by:

if (`tty` == "/dev/console") then ....

This does not work on the DECstation because by the time the .login
script runs, the server has already started a DECterm as ttyp0.

This means we also can't use 

if (`tty` == "/dev/ttyp0") because this is true even for a remote login.

Any suggestions?  Please respond by e-mail: hansen@physics.ucla.edu.

Thanks in advance.  John Hansen

Re: DEC5000/200 .login file question

#8892

Author: Jay Vassos-Libove
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1993 11:43

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This is how I ascertain whether I'm logging in to the console
of an ULTRIX system.

In ~/.login -

set iam=`/usr/ucb/whoami`
set onconsole=`/bin/who | /usr/ucb/grep $iam | /usr/ucb/grep console | wc -l`
if ( $onconsole == 1 ) then
 [do whatever there is to do when I'm on the console]
endif

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Jay Vassos-Libove                  libove@alf.dec.com
Digital Equipment Corporation      decwrl!alf.dec.com!libove
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