Re: [Condor-users] KeyBoard Idle Time infinite

[Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Preston Smith wrote:
> Steve Wilson in Biology here at Purdue came up with a neat trick.:
>
>
> "I wrote a short program (condor_usb_fix) to monitor USB activity (/ 
> dev/input/mice, in my case) and then update the access time on another  
> file ( I use /dev/condor_mouse). I changed Condor's configuration to  
> include this new "device file" (condor_mouse):
> CONSOLE_DEVICES = mouse, console, condor_mouse
> Then I added lines to start and stop my daemon from the Condor init  
> script."
>
>
> The code snip is at
>      http://web.rcac.purdue.edu/~psmith/condor_usb_fix.c
>
> I don't use it personally (don't run any the desktop Condor systems)  
> but Steve does, and this seems to do the trick in his environment.

Love it.  Only downside is it needs root access.  I'll see if I can 
incorporate this idea into future releases....

Anybody else have solutions?

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