Command line to query AIX telnet/SSH login session inactive duration/inactivity period

[gregt...@gmail.com]

Have searched high and low for a command/script that can show how long users login sessions have been inactive for. All of what I have found, talks about how to do this. Eg. Via session timeout where the 'forced logout after X period of inactive time/inactivity.

Client has a character based application 'behind' telnet that our AIX specialist is saying can't be monitored for inactivity/inactive login session duration as this will kill background tasks. Completely understand why you would not want to kick of a session that has a long running background process, but the client has asked if it is possible to run a report showing users and how long their login has been inactive.

Anyone know how to programmatically query a login session's current inactive duration/inactivity. I'm not talking about knowing what has been set as the session timeout, which will force disconnect a session. This is about running a command to query how long a user or all users on a systems have been inactive for?

Any help would be really appreciated.

[Grant Taylor]

On 7/7/20 5:54 PM, gregt...@gmail.com wrote:
> Anyone know how to programmatically query a login session's current
> inactive duration/inactivity. I'm not talking about knowing what has
> been set as the session timeout, which will force disconnect a session.
> This is about running a command to query how long a user or all users
> on a systems have been inactive for?
>
> Any help would be really appreciated.

Does "w" not give you the information that you want?



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