idle time

[Jan-Piet Mens]

dkpsy121 at nmt.edu (Master Bater) writes:


>I need some help in trying to get the idle time of a user on a tty in C, kinda
>like the way finger does...

>UTMP does not seem to hold the information I am looking for.

	Try having a look at the modification times of the user's 
	/dev/tty* file.

Regards,
	-JP
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