Determine time of last keystroke and mouse movement
Tony Breeds
tony at bakeyournoodle.com
Thu May 14 01:16:29 UTC 2009
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 02:49:38PM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Is there anyway for periodic (cron like) job running as root on Fedora
> 10 (and up) to determine time of the last keypress and mouse movement?
> Back in the day I could look at the access time of /dev/tty7, but this
> appears to be no longer the case (even when moving to /dev/tty1 to
> account for the vt1 X shift). Any ideas on how to determine this would
> be greatly appreciated.
I'm sure you can write something to read (and log) /dev/input/* This daemon
could be started at system boot and /shouldn't/ interfere with system opperation.
Yours Tony
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