From: Dave Oshel <dcoshel@...>
Date: 2003-06-01T03:19:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Accessing utmp/wtmp in Ruby


On Saturday, May 31, 2003, at 11:58  AM, Ralph Aichinger wrote:

> Please be gentle, if this is a stupd or often
> asked question, I am just starting my first
> steps in Ruby.
>
> Is there a way to get the logged in users on
> a unix host in Ruby, and their Displays? In
> Perl there is Sys::Utmp, which does the job
> nicely. Is there something similar for Ruby?

`who`.each { |w| p w }

puts `who`

There's probably more ways than that, but I'm new here too :)

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