How to find idle times.

[Al Gaspar]

> The 'w' command prints out the time each logged-in user has been idle.
> How do I get at that infomat> ion myself, without grep'ing etc the output ?
> The /etc/utmp file dosen't store this information, so it must come from
> somewhere else (kmem ?).

> Any pointer gratefully received.

The way finger does it is to get the user's tty from /etc/utmp and then
do a stat on /dev/userstty.  The st_atime member of the stat struct
obtained, being the last access time, will allow you to determine the
idle time.  I hope this helps.

Cheers--

Al

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