Power Management and Encryption

[bogstad-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Bill Bogstad)]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Daniel Feenberg <feenberg-fCu/yNAGv6M at public.gmane.org> wrote:

>
> Further search on google suggests the only way to accomplish this is to
> write a cron job that periodically consults the "w" command for idle times.
> Apparently the powers that be think that an unexpected shutdown might cause
> violence to a running process, and have elected not to make it readily
> available.

"w" only reports on applications that use a terminal or pty.   GUI
programs aren't considered.  According to "w",
my system has been idle for 2:15 seconds while I was writing this response. :-)

Bill Bogstad