From: Dave Sainty <David.Sainty@Comp.VUW.AC.NZ>
To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: "Watch" function?
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 09:07:26 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199510102007.JAA22029@lido.comp.vuw.ac.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Oct 1995 15:53:13 EDT." <9510101953.AA08115@offenbach.sbi.com>
daemonboy writes:
> I asked about this a *long* time ago, and heard nothing, so I'll forward the
> idea again and see if it flies.
>
> Instead of/in addition to being able to specify a format string for the
> "watch" facility, how hard would it be to have a special function which, if
> defined, would be called whenever the "watch" facility "saw" someone
> login/logout? (Akin to precmd(), periodic(), chpwd(), etc.)
Yeah, I would probably use it....
> My thought is to pop up a Perl/Tk window when someone logged in, rather than
> just printing it in the xterm.
....I just wouldn't use it like that... :-) If you're simply going to
call a perl script with it, it would seem more sensible to write the
whole thing in perl, scan utmp or wtmp yourself.
But I would quite like to customise the messages more based on who
logged in/out from where....
Dave.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1995-10-10 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1995-10-10 19:53 daemonboy
1995-10-10 20:07 ` Dave Sainty [this message]
1995-10-18 5:24 ` Richard Coleman
1995-10-18 12:26 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1995-10-18 12:50 ` Dave Sainty
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