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write a shell program(boune shell) on the following topic.

watching all people logging in and out and report as people come and go- a sort of incremental who. also display statistics of people logged in and logged out every 2 minutes.
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well you could do the following:
tail -f /var/log/syslog

this will give you a complete running log and some other usefull info.

alternatively:

#!/bin/sh -p
while true; do
    who
    sleep 120
done >> /usr/local/logs/userlog.log
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it's not a incremental who
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This guy seems a bit smarter than the last person who asked for the answers on this homework assignment a couple of months ago:
- He's split the paper into 2 questions, rather than ask them all together
- He's not asked the "Test if a string is a palindrome" question, so I guess he's worked it out himself ;-)

agreed, interesting comment , first he says that he wants "a sort of incremental who", then he rejects two ways of achieving it, admittedly the who was cheap and nasty, But so is someone cheating on their homework. :-)
I see the palindrome question HAS been posted now :-)