ZNOL(1)

✨ ZNOL(1) ✨

okay bestie, so the manual page for znol — section 1, General Commands Manual, MIT Project Athena girlie through and through 💅

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NAME 🎀

znol — notify via Zephyr upon login or logout of interesting people

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SYNOPSIS 🦋

znol [ on|off ] [ -f file ] [ -u username ] [ -l ] [ -q ]

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DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the vibe: znol is your little gossip network, but make it academic. It lets you get pinged the moment one of your "interesting" people logs in or out. And how does it do that? Through the Zephyr(1) Notification Service, obviously — which means a message pops up on your screen for every single person in your namelist 🔔

That namelist? Defaults to $HOME/.anyone, no cap. Format is simple, one login name per line, that's it. And if a line starts with #, it's a comment and gets fully ignored — she's not even reading it, periodt 🙈

Anyone in that namelist who happens to be logged in at the exact moment znol runs gets printed to stdout. Like, right there. For you. 💖

The control arguments are as follows:

• on|off — Turns notification on or off. Simple as that, queen.
• -f — The namelist file is taken to be file. If file is "-", then the standard input is used instead of a file. If file does not exist, an error message is printed, and znol exits. > ⚠️ This option may not be used in conjunction with the -u option. Pick a lane bestie.
• -l — Causes znol to just list the people in the namelist who are currently logged in, without subscribing to the login messages. Window shopping, no commitment ✨ > ⚠️ This option may not be used in conjunction with the -q option.
• -q — Disables printing who is currently logged in when subscribing. Silent mode, mysterious, lowkey iconic 🤫 > ⚠️ This option may not be used in conjunction with the -l option.
• -u — Instead of reading a file to specify the "interesting" users, the next argument is used as the only "interesting" user. One (1) person. A solo act. 🫶 > ⚠️ This option may not be used in conjunction with the -f option.

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EXAMPLES 🍓

znol

reads the standard namelist file, prints the locations of any users named therein which can be found on the system, and enters subscriptions for notices about those users.

znol -l -u foo

prints the location (if visible) of the user 'foo'. Just foo. Nobody else invited to the function 💅

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FILES 🎀

• $HOME/.anyone

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SEE ALSO 🌈

• anyone(SIPB)
• nol(SIPB)
• zctl(1)
• zephyr(1)
• zwgc(1)
• zhm(8)
• zephyrd(8)
• Project Athena Technical Plan Section E.4.1, Zephyr Notification Service

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AUTHOR 👑

Robert S. French (MIT-Project Athena)

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RESTRICTIONS 💀

Copyright (c) 1987,1988 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. All Rights Reserved.

zephyr(1) specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution. (Read the fine print, bestie, it's giving legal ✋)

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and that's the whole page, no notes 🧚 this one's from MIT Project Athena, dated July 1, 1988, and it's literally serving General Commands Manual realness 💜 slay, stay subscribed, mwah 🎀✨