get user's idle time

[Wm E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <1990Nov27.202215.4061 at cubmol.bio.columbia.edu> ping at cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Shiping Zhang) writes:
| Could anyone tell me how to get an user's idle time? Either from
| system calls in C or from a shell script. Thanks.

  The latest version of my screen blanker looks at the time since last
modification of the virtual terminal. It's easy to extend this to serial
or ethernet lines.
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