Package: acpi-support-base
Version: 0.109-9
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
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getXuser() just switched from finger to w a month ago, and that was a Good
Thing.
But w has a problem as well:
- -f Toggle printing the from (remote hostname) field. The default as
released is for the from field to not be printed, although your
system administrator or distribution maintainer may have compiled
a version in which the from field is shown by default.
(from man w)
There is not a way to force w to show the From field; just a way to toggle from
the default behavior.
And it looks like the default behaviour in debian is diverted from mainstream
at compile time.
I guess things could change without any prior notice, leaving us with a broken
script; maybe it's better to rely on pinky.
$ pinky -fw
root *tty2 00:04 2008-10-13 22:46
luca tty7 2008-10-13 20:58 :0
root pts/5 00:02 2008-10-13 22:46 :0.0
luca pts/6 00:02 2008-10-13 22:47 :0.0
We need to pick the second and the last fields, which makes:
user=`pinky -fw | awk '{ if ($2 == ":'$displaynum'" || $(NF) ==
":'$displaynum'" ) { print $1; exit; } }'`
Since we check the strict equality to :displaynum, it doesn't matter if some
lines do not have the From field and we read the login time.
Pinky is included in coreutils, so we don't need to depend on it; debian
version does not divert from the mainstream behaviour; furthermore, it has a
funny name.
Comments?
Luca
P.S.
I use gdm; can someone using xdm test it please? I don't see why it shouldn't
work, but you never know...
P.P.S.
I think it's still quite ugly to get the display owner this way; but I was not
able to find a sane way to do it.
I'll propose this also for a script in fglrx-atieventsd that is using finger at
the moment.
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages acpi-support-base depends on:
ii acpid 1.0.6-13 Utilities for using ACPI power man
ii console-tools [console-u 1:0.2.3dbs-65.1 Linux console and font utilities
acpi-support-base recommends no packages.
Versions of packages acpi-support-base suggests:
ii acpi-support 0.109-9 scripts for handling many ACPI eve
- -- no debconf information
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