Ok after some testing, what the who -Hu is giving me is the idle time of
each running open shell. The first line always return a "?" as the IDLE
time.
ex:
NAME LINE TIME IDLE PID COMMENT
vg0619hl :0 2010-09-30 06:10 ? 13091
vg0619hl pts/1
On Sep 29, 7:36 pm, Hugo Léveillé wrote:
> Good point
>
> One I am looking for, is time since last user mouse or keyboard action.
> So I guess I am looking for the exact same thing a screensaver is
> looking for
The command
who -Hu).
will give you idle time for each logged-in user
( H - print
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>>
>> Thanks, will take a closer look on that
>>
>> But to get me started, how would you get, via python, the info from that
>
> From a unix command prompt use the cat command to view their contents.
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> Thanks, will take a closer look on that
>
> But to get me started, how would you get, via python, the info from that
From a unix command prompt use the cat command to view their contents.
You'll notice that they plain text files with very in
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Léveillé wrote:
> Sorry, I am not a linux guy. Did not know it was a text file
That’s why I said to check the proc(5) man page for further details.
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On 2010-09-29, Hugo L?veill? wrote:
> One I am looking for, is time since last user mouse or keyboard action.
> So I guess I am looking for the exact same thing a screensaver is
> looking for
Oh. That's not what "idle" generally means in a Unix/Linux context,
so you can disregard previous answe
On 2010-09-29, Hugo L?veill? wrote:
> One I am looking for, is time since last user mouse or keyboard action.
> So I guess I am looking for the exact same thing a screensaver is
> looking for
You can probably get it from X somehow, but... Basically, be aware that
it is entirely possible for a Lin
Good point
One I am looking for, is time since last user mouse or keyboard action.
So I guess I am looking for the exact same thing a screensaver is
looking for
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:27 +, "Seebs"
wrote:
> On 2010-09-29, Hugo L?veill? wrote:
> > I have found it for windows and mac, but n
On 2010-09-29, Hugo L?veill? wrote:
> I have found it for windows and mac, but no luck under linux. Any idea?
I don't think it's semantically well-defined. What makes a system "idle"?
Is the machine in my basement idle? I don't think anyone's touched the
keyboard in a week, but it's spent a bi
On 2010-09-29, Hugo L?veill? wrote:
> Sorry, I am not a linux guy. Did not know it was a text file
And the "file" command (the usual way to figure that out) doesn't
appear to be helpful:
$ file /etc/passwd
/etc/passwd: ASCII text
[That's helpful]
$ file /proc/stat
/proc/stat: empty
Sorry, I am not a linux guy. Did not know it was a text file
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:48 +, "Grant Edwards"
wrote:
> On 2010-09-29, Hugo L?veill? wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, will take a closer look on that
> >
> > But to get me started, how would you get, via python, the info from that?
>
> Good
On Wednesday 29 September 2010, it occurred to Hugo Léveillé to exclaim:
> Thanks, will take a closer look on that
>
> But to get me started, how would you get, via python, the info from that
> ?
Parse the files. They may be very special files, but they are just files.
>
> Thanks alot
>
>
> O
On 2010-09-29, Hugo L?veill? wrote:
>
> Thanks, will take a closer look on that
>
> But to get me started, how would you get, via python, the info from that?
Good grief. They're text files. You open them, you read them,
you parse the contents for the stuff you want.
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Thanks, will take a closer look on that
But to get me started, how would you get, via python, the info from that
?
Thanks alot
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 02:01 +1300, "Lawrence D'Oliveiro"
wrote:
> /proc/stat or /proc/uptime, depending. See the proc(5) man page.
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I have found it for windows and mac, but no luck under linux. Any idea?
Thanks
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