check the output of the last command. The who command shows currently logged in and last shows current and previous logins.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:34 AM, John Heim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@johnheim.net">john@johnheim.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Anyone know how a machine can get a bogus idel time for a user? I have a<br>
problem with users getting kicked off their machines for being idel for too<br>
long. Problem is, they just logged on. If I finger user, it shows he logged<br>
on today but his idle time is 39 days. That's a problem because I have our<br>
machines configured to log people out if they are idel for more than 4 days.<br>
How can a user have been idel for 39 days when they just logged on? I<br>
thought maybe he was logged in more than once but who shows just one login<br>
for him. Below is the output from the who and the finger commands. I<br>
modified it slightly to hide the user's actual identity.<br>
<br>
# who<br>
johnsmith tty8 Jan 30 08:32 (:0)<br>
# finger johnsmith<br>
Login: johnsmith Name: John Smith<br>
Directory: /fac/johnsmith Shell: /bin/tcsh<br>
Office: 555-5555, 555 Van Vleck<br>
On since Mon Jan 30 08:32 (CST) on tty8 from :0<br>
39 days idle<br>
(messages off)<br>
No mail.<br>
No Plan.<br>
<br>
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