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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions stuck on assignment Post 302510855 by operator on Tuesday 5th of April 2011 07:03:19 AM
Old 04-05-2011
Question stuck on assignment

I was given this to do,

Write a Shell script to automatically check that a specified user is logged in to the computer.
The program should allow the person running the script to specify the name of the user to be checked, the frequency in seconds at which the script should check. If a checking frequency is not specified, it should default to 60 seconds
The script should check for the specified user and if found should output a message with a “beep” or “bell” sound to the screen stating that the user is logged in. It should also output a message to a log file stating that the user is logged in and specifying the date and time.
If the user is not logged in the script should output a message without any “beep” sound to the screen stating that the user is not logged in.
The script should allow a person running the script to specify the user name on the command line and optionally, a check frequency in seconds and a third argument “q” “q” . If “q” is present as a third argument, The script should omit any output to the screen or “beep” sound but should log to a log file the message stating that the user is logged in and giving the time.

The command to run the script would be as follows:
checklogin username 30 q where “checklogin” is the script name, “username” is the name of the user, “30” is the optional frequency to check in seconds, and “q” is the optional argument to suppress screen output.
The script should check that the number of arguments supplied is between 1 and 3 and if it is not, should terminate with an error message showing the correct syntax for the command.





so far iv done this
Code:
#get username
echo "enter username"
enter username
read username
who | grep $username
#while exit status is false continue to check
while [ $? !=0 ]
do
sleep 60
done

Any help you can give finishing this would be greatly appreciated
 

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script(1)							   User Commands							 script(1)

NAME
script - make record of a terminal session SYNOPSIS
script [-a] [filename] DESCRIPTION
The script utility makes a record of everything printed on your screen. The record is written to filename. If no file name is given, the record is saved in the file typescript. See WARNINGS. The script command forks and creates a sub-shell, according to the value of $SHELL, and records the text from this session. The script ends when the forked shell exits or when Control-d is typed. OPTIONS
The following option is supported: -a Appends the session record to filename, rather than overwriting it. NOTES
script places everything that appears on the screen in filename, including prompts. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |CSI |Enabled | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
attributes(5) WARNINGS
script can pose a security risk when used in directories that are writable by other users (for example, /tmp), especially when run by a privileged user, that is, root. Be sure that typescript is not a link before running script. SunOS 5.11 30 Jan 2004 script(1)
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