Sponsored Content
Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Incoherence between finger and .sh_history Post 302376259 by jim mcnamara on Tuesday 1st of December 2009 04:35:19 AM
Old 12-01-2009
methyl - I have not seen a POSIX specification for finger stating that it reads any given file. However, it does read other accounting files. See above. On Solaris, finger reads /var/adm/utmpx. Read the man page.


Gogol - It looks like wtmp is being updated. last should work as methyl indicated but without the -R. There are also wtmpx entries on your system. wtmp is written to only if the file exists, and for you is not part of the picture for finger.
what does
Code:
ls -l /var/adm/utmp

show?

if you grep for your username in umtpx what do you get? -- if it works you will see a lot of garbage characters. If they trash the screen use the reset command.
 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How to create .sh_history file

Thanks PxT answered my "compare two files"question very quick and neat!!:-) I have a question about .history file I couldn't find any satisfied answer from book. 1. This file was created automatically when you set up user's environment or you have to use a command to create it or you... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: b5fnpct
4 Replies

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

finger

is there a way to show information on all the users on your system? when i use 'finger' is only shows users names and info who are currently on the system. is there a way to show all accounts? thanx! (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: djatwork
5 Replies

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

.sh_history contains the list of past commands

hi, .sh_history keeps a list of past commands that we entered. but it has a limit and where do we set this limit. thanks. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: yls177
1 Replies

4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

.sh_history file

Hi Friends, We are currently 5 people using same Unix login-id on different terminals, .sh_history file contains list of commands typed by all 5 peoples(commands history) with the below list : $tail .sh_history ls -ltr pwd cd .. ls -ltr clear cd temp more kk.lst Now my question... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: krishna
9 Replies

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Clarification on .cshrc,.exrc,.login,.profile,.sh_history files

All, I had a request to delete filed under a directory that was 35 days old . And they asked me to scedule it in CRON . I have done that . I have use find and delete with mtime to perfrom this task . But my script is not deleting this .cshrc,.exrc,.login,.profile,.sh_history file... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: arunkumar_mca
1 Replies

6. AIX

history .sh_history sh_history

hi what's the difference between .sh_history and sh_history for root user? thanks itik (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: itik
1 Replies

7. AIX

timestamp in .sh_history using ksh shell

Hello Everyone: Does anyone know how I will setup my account to put timestamp in my .sh_history? I do not hold the root account. I am using AIX 5 and ksh shell. I tried every solution I can find in the internet but nothing seems to work OR I am just applying those in the wrong way. Anyone knows... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Orbix
4 Replies

8. AIX

Looking at .sh_history file.

I reviewed a couple old post where shockneck posted the use of the EXTENDED_HISTORY=ON variable to place a timestamp in the .sh_history file when using ksh and using the fc -t command to read the .sh_history file. The fc command reads my history file. As an admin I would like to be able to read... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: juredd1
5 Replies

9. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

sh_history file

Hi, I'm on a linux machine. But I see that sh_history is not updated since february 15. How is it possible ? Thank you. uname -a Linux MYSERVER 2.6.18-194.11.3.el5PAE #1 SMP Mon Aug 23 15:57:10 EDT 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux ls -al -rw------- 1 oracle dba 3644 fév 15 09:28... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: big123456
10 Replies

10. AIX

Problem in Emailing all .sh_history entries

Hi, I can't get all the enties of AIX .sh_history in email. only first entry of the history is emailed after executing the below code. mail -s "History `date +%d-%m-%Y`" myemail@xyz.com <$HOME/.sh_history Can anyone help? (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: m_raheelahmed
3 Replies
fprintd(1)																fprintd(1)

NAME
fprintd - Fingerprint management daemon, and test applications SYNOPSYS
fprintd-enroll [username] fprintd-list username [usernames...] fprintd-verify [-f finger] [usename] fprintd-delete username [usernames...] DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the fprintd command-line utilities. The fprintd daemon is accessed through D-Bus by those command-line utilities. ARGUMENTS
username The username for the user for which you want to query or modify the fingerprint database. Not that fprintd-list and fprintd-delete require at least one username to be passed, and support multiple usernames. fprintd-enroll and fprintd-verify will use the current username if none are passed on the command-line. -f finger For fprintd-enroll, the finger to enroll. Possible values are: left-thumb, left-index-finger, left-middle-finger, left-ring-finger, left-little-finger, right-thumb, right-index-finger, right- middle-finger, right-ring-finger, right-little-finger. The default is automatic, selecting the first available finger for swipe devices, or all the enrolled fingers, for press devices. TEST APPLICATIONS
fprintd-enroll Will enroll the user's right index finger into the database. fprintd-list Will list the user's enrolled fingerprints. fprintd-verify Will enroll the user's right index finger into the database. fprintd-enroll Will enroll the user's right index finger into the database. AUTHOR
fprintd was written by Bastien Nocera and Daniel Drake. DIRECTORIES
By default, fprintd stores the fingerprints in /var/lib/fprint/ SEE ALSO
dbus-daemon, gnome-about-me freedesktop 2014-06-10 fprintd(1)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 03:31 AM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy