topic Re: Login test thru script. in Operating System - HP-UX

Login test thru script.

brian_31 — Wed, 31 Jul 2002 17:21:34 GMT

Hi team:

I have the following script thru which i find what are the files which are being accessed/written to before a login program.

touch fileA
sleep 15
touch fileB
find / -newera fileA -a ! -newera fileB

But when i run this script against a login $HOME/.profile is not shown. It is obvious that the user's .profile is accessed uopn a login is it not? or am i missing something. The idea is to have a list of all the files that were either read,referenced,written or executed before login. Can someone help?

Thanks
Brian.

Re: Login test thru script.

Hai Nguyen_1 — Wed, 31 Jul 2002 17:27:06 GMT

Brian,

Only the files which are CREATED/MODIFIED within that period should show up. As for .profile, it is read only as login. Therefore, its timestamp is unchanged, resulting that it is not shown by the find command.

Hai

Re: Login test thru script.

Rich Wright — Wed, 31 Jul 2002 19:13:45 GMT

I know what you mean, I think I was able to duplicate your problem.
I found that if I added
-name "*" -type f
to the find command it would work.
eg:
find / -name "*" -type f -newera fileA -a ! -newera fileB

Re: Login test thru script.

brian_31 — Thu, 01 Aug 2002 16:44:11 GMT

Hi Rich:

It still does not show .profile. It shows /etc/profile but not .profile.

Thanks
Brian.

Re: Login test thru script.

Sajid_1 — Thu, 01 Aug 2002 16:53:36 GMT

Hi Brian:

Is this user's default shell POSIX ? If not, then the profile file will be different. Check .login abd .cshrc files if it's cshell

Re: Login test thru script.

Sajid_1 — Thu, 01 Aug 2002 17:03:29 GMT

While the user logs in, the $HOME profile will be accessed, but not modified. The newer option will list only the files which were modified after the given file. The option for listing all files which were accessed is -atime.

# man find

Re: Login test thru script.

brian_31 — Thu, 01 Aug 2002 18:57:28 GMT

Hi:

newera option should show the accessed file.

Thanks
Brian.

Re: Login test thru script.

Rich Wright — Thu, 01 Aug 2002 19:40:30 GMT

Here is what I see. It depends on the default shell for the user that logs in.

For user root with default shell /sbin/sh.
# touch a
# term ## which starts a new session
Starting terminal window on host (TERM=hpterm) ...
# touch b
# find . -name "*" -newera a -a ! -newera b
./.profile
./b

Now for user with /usr/bin/csh default shell.

# touch a
# term ## which starts a new session
Starting terminal window on host (TERM=hpterm) ...
# touch b
# find . -name "*" -newera a -a ! -newera b
./.cshrc
./b
./.kshrc
./.login

I am running HP-UX 11.0

Rich