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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Activate command when computer is idle Post 303023795 by drysdalk on Saturday 22nd of September 2018 04:37:56 PM
Old 09-22-2018
Hi,

I think there are two main questions here: firstly, when you say that it "is not quite working", what is going wrong ? Are you getting an error, or do you find that the idle message is never displayed ? If you can give some detail on what precisely is gong wrong and how you're determining that it's gone wrong, that will be helpful.

Secondly: what is it you're intending to do once the idle threshold is reached ? I ask because it may well be that other utilities already exist to detect and perform your idle task without you having to re-invent the wheel. For example, if you simply wish to lock your X session, then things like xscreensaver or xlock (or its various successors) may well do the job without you having to worry any more about it. So if you can explain why you need to detect the system being idle and what you plan on doing when it is, there may be other solutions here aside from writing something yourself.
 

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PG_TRANSACTION_STATUS(3)												  PG_TRANSACTION_STATUS(3)

pg_transaction_status - Returns the current in-transaction status of the server.

SYNOPSIS
int pg_transaction_status (resource $connection) DESCRIPTION
Returns the current in-transaction status of the server. Caution pg_transaction_status(3) will give incorrect results when using a PostgreSQL 7.3 server that has the parameter autocommit set to off. The server-side autocommit feature has been deprecated and does not exist in later server versions. PARAMETERS
o $connection - PostgreSQL database connection resource. RETURN VALUES
The status can be PGSQL_TRANSACTION_IDLE (currently idle), PGSQL_TRANSACTION_ACTIVE (a command is in progress), PGSQL_TRANSACTION_INTRANS (idle, in a valid transaction block), or PGSQL_TRANSACTION_INERROR (idle, in a failed transaction block). PGSQL_TRANSACTION_UNKNOWN is reported if the connection is bad. PGSQL_TRANSACTION_ACTIVE is reported only when a query has been sent to the server and not yet com- pleted. EXAMPLES
Example #1 pg_transaction_status(3) example <?php $dbconn = pg_connect("dbname=publisher") or die("Could not connect"); $stat = pg_transaction_status($dbconn); if ($stat === PGSQL_TRANSACTION_UNKNOWN) { echo 'Connection is bad'; } else if ($stat === PGSQL_TRANSACTION_IDLE) { echo 'Connection is currently idle'; } else { echo 'Connection is in a transaction state'; } ?> PHP Documentation Group PG_TRANSACTION_STATUS(3)
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