How to mail the name of the user that logged off?

[Brian Mury]

On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 23:36 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:04:23 -0700
> Brian Mury <brianmury at alumni.uvic.ca> wrote:
> 
> > That only works for users who use bash as their default shell.
> 
> He said that the users use a terminal and since he asked on the Fedora mailing
> list and Fedora's default shell is bash, I think that is a reasonable assumption
> to make.  If he was using a non-standard shell, he would probably have
> mentioned it.

It is not at all a reasonable assumption. Each user can have a different
shell, and it can be changed by the users themselves whenever they like.