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From: fgreco@govt.shearson.COM (Frank Greco)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: How to Time Out Inactive Users
Message-ID: <9101291657.AA05847@fis1.shearson.com>
Date: 29 Jan 91 16:57:39 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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> I am writing an application which must time out my users when they have
> not touched the keyboard or mouse for a fixed time period, forcing them
> to re-enter their password.
>
> Can anyone think of a good way to solve this problem?  All responses are
> greatly appreciated.


	How about checking the last access time of /dev/kbd or /dev/mouse?

	I use this little script all the time:

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	#!/bin/sh

	set `ls -lu /dev/mouse`
	mouse=$8

	set `ls -lu /dev/kbd`
	kbd=$8
	set `date`
	time=$4

	echo "Its [$time] - Mouse last touched at $mouse and Keyboard last pressed at $kbd"
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	(Side note: from some tests that I ran, they unexpectedly yielded
	the same time using X11R4, ie, accessing one changed both times,
	but under Sunview I got different times for each)

	Frank G.