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by **Dirk Moolma** » Thu, 21 Feb 2002 20:35:26

I received the following request from one of our department managers

"I want to show somebody in my department that she hardly ever works -
can the system tell you how long a session was not used in a day ?"

Is this possible ? I know about the login times (using the command "last"),
but I don't know if it is possible to find the idle time during the time the
user was logged in, and even if I do, how do I interpret that ?

Any help on this subject will be appreciated.
Regards
Dirk

by **Jason Saslo** » Fri, 22 Feb 2002 01:54:26

> I received the following request from one of our department managers

> "I want to show somebody in my department that she hardly ever works -
> can the system tell you how long a session was not used in a day ?"

> Is this possible ? I know about the login times (using the command "last"),
> but I don't know if it is possible to find the idle time during the time the
> user was logged in, and even if I do, how do I interpret that ?

> Any help on this subject will be appreciated.
> Regards
> Dirk

Type "w" and hit return. You will get something that looks like this:

bash-2.05# w
11:48am up 100 day(s), 1:25, 4 users, load average: 1.80, 1.73,
1.58

jsaslow console Fri 8am 5days /usr/dt/bin/sdt_shell
-c ? u
jsaslow pts/4 Fri 8am 8:35 1 w
jsaslow pts/5 Fri 8am 19:19 bash
jsaslow pts/6 Fri 8am 1:08 3 3 telnet machine2
jsaslow pts/7 Fri 8am 3:02 telnet machine
jsaslow pts/11 Fri 8am 20:31 ssh deuce
jsaslow pts/12 Fri 8am 18:54 2:28 1 bash
jsaslow pts/16 Fri 8am 2:26 bash
jsaslow pts/17 Fri 8am 15 11 10 ssh deuce
jsaslow pts/18 Fri 8am 20:31 1 ssh firewall
dlord pts/10 11Feb02 9days 1 -csh
jsaslow pts/1 Fri 8am 22:57 mysql -u root -p
syse_dev
jsaslow pts/2 Fri 8am 5days 1 ssh deuce
jsaslow pts/3 Fri 8am 19:19 2 bash
jsaslow pts/21 Fri 8am 21:23 telnet machine3
jsaslow pts/22 Fri10am 55 11:20 9:06 ./xanim +V +Ae 1F09
Homer the Vi
dlord pts/20 11Feb02 8days 1 -csh
dlord pts/8 11Feb02 9days -csh

From that, you can see on this machine that dlord, for example, logged
in on pts/20 on Feb 11, 2002 and has been idle on that tty for 8 days.
You can also see what command they're running from that tty.

Hope that's helpful.

PS- Pay no attention to the episode of the Simpsons playing on this
machine :o)

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by **Jeremiah DeWitt Weine** » Fri, 22 Feb 2002 07:30:41

>> I received the following request from one of our department managers

>> "I want to show somebody in my department that she hardly ever works -
>> can the system tell you how long a session was not used in a day ?"
> Type "w" and hit return. You will get something that looks like this:

Yeah, but that will only show you how long the session's been idle
/at that moment/. It won't tell you how much idle time a given session
racked up in one day, nor do I think there is a simple way to tell. I
guess you could do something with auditing, and see how long it was
between commands issued by the user.

JDW

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by **Dirk Moolma** » Fri, 22 Feb 2002 14:56:09

Thank you Jason & Jeremiah,

yeah, that's also what I thought. The "w" command will give me the status of
all *currently* logged in sessions.
I will have a look at the auditing you are refering to. Is there a good
online manual to describe this, and can I enable auditing for one user only
?

Dirk

PS if you don't mind, please send a copy of your reply to my personal e-mail
address as well.
Very much appreciated - thanks !

> >> I received the following request from one of our department managers

> >> "I want to show somebody in my department that she hardly ever works -
> >> can the system tell you how long a session was not used in a day ?"

> > Type "w" and hit return. You will get something that looks like this:

> Yeah, but that will only show you how long the session's been idle
> /at that moment/. It won't tell you how much idle time a given session
> racked up in one day, nor do I think there is a simple way to tell. I
> guess you could do something with auditing, and see how long it was
> between commands issued by the user.

> JDW

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by **mack** » Sat, 23 Feb 2002 01:16:42

the whodo command may give you some additional info

Mac

> Thank you Jason & Jeremiah,

> yeah, that's also what I thought. The "w" command will give me the status
of
> all *currently* logged in sessions.
> I will have a look at the auditing you are refering to. Is there a good
> online manual to describe this, and can I enable auditing for one user
only
> ?

> Dirk

> PS if you don't mind, please send a copy of your reply to my personal
e-mail
> address as well.
> Very much appreciated - thanks !

message

> > >> I received the following request from one of our department managers

> > >> "I want to show somebody in my department that she hardly ever
works -
> > >> can the system tell you how long a session was not used in a day ?"

> > > Type "w" and hit return. You will get something that looks like this:

> > Yeah, but that will only show you how long the session's been idle
> > /at that moment/. It won't tell you how much idle time a given session
> > racked up in one day, nor do I think there is a simple way to tell. I
> > guess you could do something with auditing, and see how long it was
> > between commands issued by the user.

> > JDW

> > --
> > If mail to me bounces, try removing the "+STRING" part of the address.

by **Alan Coopersmi** » Sat, 23 Feb 2002 01:26:50

|> "I want to show somebody in my department that she hardly ever works -
|> can the system tell you how long a session was not used in a day ?"
|
|Type "w" and hit return. You will get something that looks like this:
|From that, you can see on this machine that dlord, for example, logged
|in on pts/20 on Feb 11, 2002 and has been idle on that tty for 8 days.
|You can also see what command they're running from that tty.

That only works for tty-based commands. It could show 8 hours idle
while the user has been busily working in StarOffice, Netscape, Xemacs,
or any number of other X-based applications.

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by **Jason Saslo** » Wed, 27 Feb 2002 04:40:56

> |> "I want to show somebody in my department that she hardly ever works -
> |> can the system tell you how long a session was not used in a day ?"
> |
> |Type "w" and hit return. You will get something that looks like this:
> |From that, you can see on this machine that dlord, for example, logged
> |in on pts/20 on Feb 11, 2002 and has been idle on that tty for 8 days.
> |You can also see what command they're running from that tty.

> That only works for tty-based commands. It could show 8 hours idle
> while the user has been busily working in StarOffice, Netscape, Xemacs,
> or any number of other X-based applications.

Right, same if you open an xterm using that tty. It's not a terribly
good way of doing this sort of thing, but you can get the general idea.

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