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Operating Systems SCO User process information and idle times Post 302807867 by mmcardle on Wednesday 15th of May 2013 12:39:23 PM
Old 05-15-2013
User process information and idle times
My company uses a proprietary GUI to its business system (Strategix) which runs on Windows clients, whereas the back-end runs on a SCO OpenServer 5.0.6a server.

We're moving to a new business system next year and the business is growing and we're running out of licences on Strategix and making our users frustrated when they can't get in. However, with a new business system looming, I'm reluctant to spend £2,000 per extra licence.

I wanted to use the "idleout" facility of SCO to kick out users who were idling along, but Strategix uses a proprietary software interface that doesn't allow me to use the traditional UNIX facilities like "idleout" or "who" or "finger -i". Instead, it comes with it's own binary executable called "adwho", but all that does is list the user and the module in Strategix they are using.

I can use "ps -ef" or "ps -u" to get some process information, but nothing to help with clearly identifying who has been idle for x minutes.

Has anyone got any brilliant ideas?

Cheers for any help.

Mark
 

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glabels(1)						      General Commands Manual							glabels(1)

NAME

       glabels - Label and business card creation program for GNOME

SYNOPSIS

       glabels-3 [OPTIONS] [label-filename...]

       glabels-3-batch [OPTIONS] [label-filename...]

DESCRIPTION

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OPTIONS

       -?, --help
	      Display a summary of available command-line options.

       --usage
	      Display a short usage summary.

       -v, --version
	      Print program version information.

       Options specific to glabels-batch

       -o filename, --output=filename
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FILES

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SEE ALSO

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