| Title: | DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90 |
| Notice: | See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit |
| Moderator: | STAR::VATNE |
| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Dec 31 1990 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3726 |
| Total number of notes: | 19516 |
I have a customer who needs to enter a charge number in at the same
time a user logs in and to keep track of the time the user is logged
in to the system so his time can be charged to the number entered.
Has anyone seen a modified dxsession example which would accomplish
this? The systems being used will be RISC ULTRIX.
The customer has tried to write a program that essentially captures
the dxsession and does a fork, creates a child process for dxsession.
But dxsession quits after about 40 seconds. (The customer is new to X).
dxsession restarts itself after theapprox 40 second timeout. This same
method seems to work fine on SUN machines running their non X windowing
system.
All that would be needed would be to add another message region to
the dxsession and capture the login logout times.
Mike
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| 3007.1 | ABYSS::dike | Fri Jun 29 1990 08:51 | 3 | ||
Why is it necessary to modify dxsession to get this information? ULTRIX already keeps track of this information, with or without decwindows. Jeff | |||||
| 3007.2 | Help with modifying dxsession for accounting | SCIRE::PALLONE | Tue Jul 10 1990 12:15 | 23 | |
ULTRIX does not keep track of an account number that the customer must enter as far as I know. Can you explain to me how ULTRIX does this ? Do we release the source for DXsession as part of the ULTRIX source kit ? The customer needs to do a couple of things: 1. force the user to enter a proper account number when logging on to the system. This will enable the customer to bill the correct account. Each user does not have only one account number to bill to. This is a government contractor which needs to have the CAD users log in to the system, enter a valid account number (to receive billing for that portion of the day's work). 2. The customer also wants the ability to switch the user to a different directory (other then their home directory) based on the account number entered. They must maintain their normal home directory. The customer is currently doing this on UNIX but not in a DECwindows environment. They are experiencing a number of errors when attemping the same type of script on ULTRIX. | |||||