Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!umich!ox.com!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!unido!logixwi!jpm
From: jpm@logixwi.uucp (Jan-Piet Mens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: idle time
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.150347.29858@logixwi.uucp>
Date: 17 Apr 91 15:03:47 GMT
References: <1991Apr17.024209.1056@nmt.edu>
Organization: Logix GmbH, Wiesbaden, W-Germany
Lines: 16

dkpsy121@nmt.edu (Master Bater) writes:


>I need some help in trying to get the idle time of a user on a tty in C, kinda
>like the way finger does...

>UTMP does not seem to hold the information I am looking for.

	Try having a look at the modification times of the user's 
	/dev/tty* file.

Regards,
	-JP
-- 
Jan-Piet Mens, Logix GmbH				    jpm@logixwi.UUCP
Moritzstr. 50, D-6200 Wiesbaden            ...!uunet!mcsun!unido!logixwi!jpm