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Old 08-23-2005
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline Forum Staff  
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Try man getutent

This function reads any file in "utmp" format -- the /etc/utmp file has the recent entries. The utmp struct has information about pids currently running.

You can periodically open, read /etc/utmp, then close it to find what processes are currently running.