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From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: gossamer@tertius.net.au, zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Tracking idletimes
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 01:53:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <981216015313.ZM11440@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrn77efle.s7b.gossamer@tertius.net.au>

On Dec 16,  5:01am, Gossamer wrote:
} Subject: Re: Tracking idletimes
}
} What I want the computer to do is somehow "sense" when I'm using it
} and tell me to get up and stretch.

If you're on a linux box (I'm guessing by the reference to virtual
consoles), try using "stat" or "ls -l" on the /dev/tty? device files.
If the mod time is changing, then either you're sitting there typing
or some job is generating continuous output.

-- 
Bart Schaefer                                 Brass Lantern Enterprises
http://www.well.com/user/barts              http://www.brasslantern.com


  reply	other threads:[~1998-12-16  9:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-12-15 23:27 Gossamer
1998-12-15 23:59 ` Phil Pennock
1998-12-16  5:01   ` Gossamer
1998-12-16  9:53     ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
1998-12-16 15:42     ` Anthony Whitehouse
1998-12-16 23:57       ` Gossamer
1998-12-16 18:26 Juergen Sell
1998-12-16 23:56 ` Gossamer

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