[techtalk] Where'd I come from?

Beverly Guillermo mezanin at home.com
Thu Jan 20 01:52:20 EST 2000


Have you tried to run finger on your username?

Beverly

On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Linda Walsh wrote:

> I'm trying to autoset the DISPLAY value when I log in remotely.
> Under Sunos, the remote system name was output by the 'who -m' command,
> and under IRIX it was in REMOTEHOST, but I am not readily seeing how
> to handle this in SuSE 6.3.  I thought about trying to pick values
> out of the 'last' command, but it truncates the system name anyway.
> 
> So anyone know a command will display the system I logged in from (empty
> if a local login)?
> 
> Thanks...
> -linda
> 
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