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Jason Paisley

11-22-2009 05:06 PM

Cannot find this one in the book..

27. Know the name of a utility that determines that the user is logged on to a specific machine.

I cannot seem to find the answer to this little exam question in my big arsed textbook. By utility it is asking for the command to use in CLI.

Any tips?

Tinkster

11-22-2009 05:11 PM

Hi, welcome to LQ!

Try:

Code:

man -k user

Read the descriptions of the commands, pick likely candidates
and try to use them to see what they do.

Cheers,
Tink

Jason Paisley

11-22-2009 06:02 PM

Thank ye.

I'll pop up Gnome and give it a go.

dogstar1

11-22-2009 07:01 PM

w - Show who is logged on and what they are doing.

++nick++

11-22-2009 07:07 PM

last - will show you the users who are currently logged in along with various other information

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