[ale] console...

[Ben Phillips]

On Sun, 2 May 1999, Sar'Naa Archie wrote:

> is there a way to run a program in console...as opposed to the screen
> blanking out?  

I'm guessing here, but I don't think console does that.  But I'm pretty
sure, that you can implement a cron job that will execute, say, once a
minute, which would parse the output of 'finger' to look for an idle time
past a certain threshold.  It could execute a program when the shortest
listed idle time is 15 minutes or however long you want the delay to be.

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