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: Here's a question for anyone and everyone...
 
: Does anyone know of a utility we can use here on the Alpha system that would
: "notify" us when a pre-chosen user-id log's on?? I know you can use the
notify
: command in IRC to do this, how about on the VAX??
 
It can be done pretty easily using a DCL script.  For a hint on how
to do it, you just need to output a list of who's on to a file, wait
a certain amount of time (like 3-5 minutes, one's that continually
check are a waste of CPU time for something that is entirely unneeded),
then check again and compare to the last check and if any of the new
names are in a file you would have called "friends.lis" or whatever,
then send a message to yourself.  Then you just need to spawn that
script off in the background.
 
As far as I know, there isn't anyway to have the OS tell you someone
logged in directly.
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Michael G. Jones                                      Miami University
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