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From: jdaley%uxg.umds.lon.ac.uk@pucc.princeton.edu ( Julian Daley)
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Subject: How to find idle times.
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Date: 20 Aug 90 22:36:29 GMT
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The 'w' command prints out the time each logged-in user has been idle.
How do I get at that infomation myself, without grep'ing etc the output ?
The /etc/utmp file dosen't store this information, so it must come from
somewhere else (kmem ?).

Any pointer gratefully received.

Thanks,
Julian.

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