Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:53:13 -0300 (ART) From: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar> To: Ronnie Clark <RClark@swst.com> Cc: "'Freebsd-Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: login script question Message-ID: <20010712164926.P20585-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> In-Reply-To: <EE037FA03845D41190F400508B2D851105413D9D@SWS_EXCG6>
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On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Ronnie Clark wrote:
> Hello all. I am trying my hand at perl scripting now that I am comfortable
> with the FreeBSD OS itself. I wish to write a login script that acknowledges
> the use when they log in. But, I need to know two things:
> 1. What variable is assigned to the login name? In other words, how does one
> tell the script to pull the login name? (i.e in the script $name = "?" )
It is in the ENV hash: $ENV{'USER'}
> 2. Where would one put a login script? I looked in /etc, but nothing jumped
> out.
If you want to run the script when every user logs in, add the call to it
in /etc/profile and /etc/csh.login
>
> Thanks in advance for the help.
Hope this helps.
Fer
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> Thank you,
> RC
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