terminal question

[AIT- Mark Comins]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Bob Stockler wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 12:45:00PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> | On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 12:15:35PM -0400, Courtney wrote:
> | > I need to have a way to capture the terminal a user is on-from that I can
> | > determine where to print report(s) etc...problem is that they use the same
> | > login so I cannot use @id...
> | >
> | > We are on SCO Unix...
> |
> | You can USER /bin/tty to get the tty name, but if they're on via the
> | network, that won't tell you enough.  Alas, finding out enough can be
> | difficult.
>
> When /bin/tty is executed by the USER command it is
> _not_ connected to a terminal (and tells you so).
>


Try putting the following into the /etc/profile file

tty1=`tty|cut -c 6-10`;export tty1

Then $tty1 will have the terminal the user is on.

Mark Comins
mtcomins at aperion.com

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