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Hey Guys, I am Extremely new at this ( meaning i just loaded knoppix on Virtual PC about a week ago) which is giving me tons of problems. i am trying to get a machine i can through linux on bu8t don't have access to one at the momment

I need a script in bash that i can run using cron that I can schedule every 5 minutes or so to show what users are logged on to a machine and how long they have been logged on and append this information to a logfile. Can anyone give me a hand? I would really appreciate it

Sounds alot like a homework project.....

I'll get you started anyway......

man who
use ">>"redirect to append one ">" overwrites. two ">>" appends to a file.

Should be fairly simple.

It is a Homework assignment. Thank you for your help. I believe the structure should be something like this

###############################################
DAT='date +%b%d'
LOGFILE=/tmp/active.out$DAT

## Will right the user info to a logfile)
who –u >> LOGFILE

############# EOS #########

maybe add

#!/bin/bash

to the beggining

exit 0

to the end ......

other than that.....looks pretty good.

Thanks for the help. I appreciate it.

Your welcome.