question about tty

[njia_1]

Hi

After I did a "w" command on a hpux server I saw a output like this
nmcman pts/0 9:15am 47.128.43.21
nmcman pts/1 9:18am telnet 147.128.43.21
nmcman pts/2 9:51am more -s
root pts/ta 11:33am w

what is the difference between pts/0 and pts/ta, also if someone login using exceed, how can I find out the remote IP address?

thanks
Nan

[Bill Hassell]

The pts/0 and pts/ta names are abbreviations for the devicefiles used to connect telnet to a pseudo terminal. See man page for pty. The complete devicefile name is /dev/pts/0.

Exceed offers several methods to connect including remote desktop (CDE). You can see how each session has been logged with the last command. Use the -R option:

last -R | more

[Rajeev Shukla]

the difference between pts/0 and pts/ta is that they are different pseudo devices and to see people login from exceed, use who -u command
This will give you the IP address and the tty

[Steven E. Protter]

you can't find out remote ip address from the psuedo term they get.

That can be gleened from the /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log file.

Its helpful if you have enhanced logging inetd -l if you have not already set that up.

The w command is putting this together for you, from the syslog.log file or the processing current sessions against the /var/adm/wtmp file


SEP