NAME

ttyloc − set or display tty location

SYNOPSIS

ttyloc [-d [deffile]] [-t ttyname] [ttylocation]

DESCRIPTION

ttyloc is part of the finger distribution.  By default, ttyloc will display the current terminal location (a descriptive place, such as the name of the machine the user networked in from, or “Home”, “Work”, and possibly a phone number.  This tty location can be seen by other users as the last field in finger output. 

OPTIONS

-d [file]
Sets the ttyloc of the terminal connected to this process to the default set in the file file.  If file is not given the ~/.ttylocs is used.  This is usually run from the user’s .profile to set the ttyloc automatically when the user logs in.  See FORMAT OF TTYLOCS for information on the format of the default ttyloc files. 

-t ttyname
This sets or gets the named ttys location.  The default is the current user’s terminal.

ttylocation
Is the name of the tty.

FORMAT OF TTYLOCS

The default ttylocs file (usually /usr/lib/finger/ttylocs) is:

TTY:LONG DESCRIPTION[:SHORT DESCRIPTION]

TTY Is the device as found in /etc/utmp in the ut_line field.  The colon must exist. 

LONG DESCRIPTION
Is a description of where the tty is located (possible an office number or name of a room).

SHORT DESCRIPTION
Is the prefix to add to any ttyloc that the user changes it too.  If this field is left blank and no colon exists after the LONG DESCRIPTION field then no user can modify the ttyloc.  If this field is blank with a colon after LONG DESCRIPTION then the user may change the ttyloc to anything. 

DEFAULTS

The default tty location is taken from the ~finger/ttylocs file.  This file will describe how to format the entry which may include a default format that may or may not be able to  be changed by a user and a prefix (which may be null) for when it is changed by a user. 
 
If ttyloc is not run on a terminal the default tty location will be the name of the system the user networked in from or from the comment field in /etc/inittab (if the system has such a thing),

FILES

/usr/lib/finger/ttylocsdefault ttyloc informations
/usr/lib/finger/ltmpshadow of utmp for keeping track of ttylocs
~/.ttylocsuser’s default ttyloc information.

SEE ALSO

finger(1l), watson(1l)

AUTHOR

Keith M. Gabryelski (ag@amix.commodore.com)

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