Re: Keyboard Timelogger

[Danny Sauer <danny@dannysauer.com>]

Do you log in and log out generally, or leave an X session open all the 
time?  If you're usually logging and and out, you could do this with a 
PAM module in the session part of the stack.  The use of pam_env and 
pam_exec with some simple shell scripting could do something which 
starts / stops a timer daemon.

Or you could put something in your .bashrc and .bash_logout if you use 
bash - I'm thinking something like increment a counter file on login, 
decrement the counter file on logout, and have a cron job running every 
minute / 5 minutes which increments an n*interval counter file named 
based on the date if the counter's greater than 0 (indicating a 
logged-in shell).

Or use utmp / w and increment the "someone was logged in" file if your 
username appears in the w output.

Or get one of those lawyer / chess timer things on your desk, and hit 
the apropriate button when you start / stop working on the machine. ;)

--Danny

Herbie wrote:
> I'm looking for a small prog that will track how much time I spend at 
> the keyboard (and mouse) each day, and hopefully email me a little 
> report. I'm looking at keyfrog, as the only prog I've seen so far. 
> Don't know if it's quite what I need.
>
> h.

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