Home
| Calendar
| Mail Lists
| List Archives
| Desktop SIG
| Hardware Hacking SIG
Wiki | Flickr | PicasaWeb | Video | Maps & Directions | Installfests | Keysignings Linux Cafe | Meeting Notes | Linux Links | Bling | About BLU |
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
BLU is a member of BostonUserGroups | |
We also thank MIT for the use of their facilities. |