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From: alex@bma35b.ma02.bull.com (Alex Bottonelli)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: get user's idle time
Summary: Try who -u
Message-ID: <31@bma35b.ma02.bull.com>
Date: 11 Dec 90 16:05:55 GMT
References: <1990Nov27.202215.4061@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu>
Organization: Bull Hn Italia - Newton Massachussetts USA
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In article <1990Nov27.202215.4061@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu>, ping@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Shiping Zhang) writes:
> Could anyone tell me how to get an user's idle time? Either from
> system calls in C or from a shell script. Thanks.
> 
> -ping

On my system ( System V ) who accepts a -u option that will display
the idle time of a user's tty ( a dot '.' for no idle time ). Does
your system have such a option for who ? Hope it helps

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