notifyme(1)

notifyme1

Notifies a user then other one logs in

Usage

notifyme [-c conf] [-C] [-l] [-q] [-h] [USERNAME] ...

Overview

notifyme is a console utility that stays in a background (it isn't a daemon but it doesn't block terminal) and prints a message if a specified login and/or logout occurs. .

When program starts it reports number of logins and minimum idle time of the users that you specified in a resource file. .

In the config file ($HOME/notify.rc by default) you can specify (extended regular expressions are allowed) usernames, hostnames and terminals that should be monitored, optional messages that will be displayed and other options (beep, report logouts etc.).

Options

-c config-file

Specify the configuration file where usernames, hostname and terminals which will be monitored.

-C

Force notifyme to display messages on the center of the screen.

-l

Do not report when the user logouts.

-q

No beep when a message appears.

-h

Show help index.

Files

~/notify.rc

Indication of usernames, terminals and hostnames to be monitored.

Releases

5 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1–6.0

-C since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -c since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -h since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -l since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -q since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).

Author

Michal Suszycki <[email protected]>

From notifyme 1.4.3-3 in Debian 6.0 (Squeeze). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.