Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 22:53:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Will Andrews <andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM> To: Michael Haro <mharo@area51.fremont.ca.us> Cc: FreeBSD Ports Team <ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: arb patch to tell who installed port and when Message-ID: <XFMail.990825225350.andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM> In-Reply-To: <19990825111012.A73932@area51.fremont.ca.us>
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On 25-Aug-99 Michael Haro wrote:
> How about ignoring ${USER} and using /usr/bin/logname.
Ah, very good. I was looking for something in the BASE system that would do the
equivalent of what you suggested below, getlogin(). I suppose it's because I've
never really seen much use of this program that I've ignored it in this case.
> Installed by:
> joe-user
That's what I suggested. It might be omitted from pkg_info -I, though, even if
-a is also specified. A flag for this feature seems most appropriate (subject
to the standard rules other information given by pkg_info is).
> How about using getlogin() to find out who.
Note that system calls won't help us unless we can call a program that already
exists in the base system. But, since you've found one... no need to write a
new program whose only purpose is to return getlogin(). :-)
> Warning could be an option but I'd like a flag to turn off warning.
> I'm not sure if warning should be on by default or not.
Well.. what does the typical system's administration consist of? I'm pretty
sure it's more often just one person, or a group of people who have no need or
don't care for this feature.
--
Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>
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