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watch (VI)

SYSWATCH(VI)  −  PWB/UNIX 8/24/77

NAME

syswatch − record logins/logouts on system

SYNOPSIS

syswatch

DESCRIPION

Syswatch makes a transcript of all logins and logouts on the system by watching the utmp “who” file.  When you log out, syswatch goes away automatically.  It is not necessary to start syswatch with an ‘&’ to the shell; syswatch goes into the “background” automatically, and reports its process number. 

FILES

/etc/utmpwho file

SEE ALSO

watch (VI)

AUTHOR

Howard Katseff

BUGS

Typewritten Software • bear@typewritten.org • Edmonds, WA 98026