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Top Forums Programming How to find inactive time of a process? Post 302484988 by shreeda on Monday 3rd of January 2011 10:46:36 PM

01-03-2011

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Originally Posted by Corona688

You're not trying to measure how long a proces has been inactive, you're trying to measure how long a user has been inactive. The process could well still be occasionally busy with other things even when not processing user input.

Configure your window environments to logout after x minutes of inactivity, instead of trying to measure that from the outside in. They actually deal with user input and know when it's happening -- the WM will know that not just keystrokes but mouse movements mean they're not idle, for example.

This will mean that different login methods will need to be controlled in different ways if they can be controlled at all, but has the advantage that it might actually be possible.

Thank you. That makes sense now. So my flow will be something like
1) Have window sessions configured - With this idle sessions will be terminated anyway
2) Find other mechanisms to handle other applications - I still need to figure this out! It's very likely that I need to fiddle with the /proc system as I cannot modify the source code of the applications.

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whodo(1M)																 whodo(1M)

NAME

       whodo - which users are doing what

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

       The command produces merged, reformatted, and dated output from the and commands (see who(1) , ps(1) and acctcom(1M)).

       If user is specified, output is restricted to all sessions pertaining to that user.

       The following options are available:

       Suppress the heading.

       Produce a long form of output.  The fields displayed
		      are:  the  user's login name, the name of the tty the user is on, the time of day the user logged in (in hours:minutes), the
		      idle time - that is, the time since the user last typed anything (in hours:minutes), the CPU time used by all processes  and
		      their  children  on that terminal (in minutes:seconds), the CPU time used by the currently active processes (in minutes:sec-
		      onds), and the name and arguments of the current process.

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

   Environment Variables
       determines the order in which the output is sorted.

       If is not specified in the environment or is set to the empty string, the value of is used as a default.  If is not specified or is set	to
       the  empty  string,  a  default of ``C'' (see lang(5)) is used instead of If any internationalization variable contains an invalid setting,
       behaves as if all internationalization variables are set to ``C'' (see environ(5)).

FILES

       SEE ALSO
	      ps(1), who(1), acctcom(1M).

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE

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