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Old May 9th, 2004, 09:35 PM
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Hi, could anyone tell me or give me a script of a way to compute no of days since last login for a purticular user. I just want the output to be the no of days since last login. eg 90 or 35 etc. I have been working on this script for 3 weeks now......eveerything works fine except the part for getting the users's last login and computing the dasy since that date. any help is greatly appreciated.Thx in adv.
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why can't you just grep from finger?

bash-2.05b# finger chris | grep login | cut -f3,4,5 -d' '
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seems to work quite well for me

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Hi chris,

getting the login is not the problem for me but getting the difference between two dates is. I cant seem to figure out how to do it.
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Do it in PERL and use CPAN

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