[Neurodebian-users] Condor, USB and KeyboardIdle problem

[Michael Hanke]

Hey,

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Kaj Wiik <kjwiik at utu.fi> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Perhaps better place to ask would be condor-users but as this is a
> linux-specific and probably debian-related problem...
>
> Is there already a fix to the problem that USB keyboard/mice atime is not
> changed and so keyboard/mouse activity is not detected? I found that in the
> standard Neurodebian setup, activity detection does not work out-of-the-box
> (unfortunately from an affected user...).
>
> Google gives three possible solutions (from 2008): kernel patch (uugh..),
> monitoring ttyN (does not work currently at least in Ubuntu) and an
> user-space helper deamon:
>
> https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/**archive/htcondor-users/2008-**
> February/msg00112.shtml<https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/archive/htcondor-users/2008-February/msg00112.shtml>
>
> Has there been any progress on this I have missed?
>

condor_config contains:

##  Normally, when the startd is computing the idle time of all the
##  users of the machine (both local and remote), it checks the utmp
##  file to find all the currently active ttys, and only checks access
##  time of the devices associated with active logins.  Unfortunately,
##  on some systems, utmp is unreliable, and the startd might miss
##  keyboard activity by doing this.  So, if your utmp is unreliable,
##  set this setting to True and the startd will check the access time
##  on all tty and pty devices.
#STARTD_HAS_BAD_UTMP = False

##  This entry allows the startd to monitor console (keyboard and
##  mouse) activity by checking the access times on special files in
##  /dev.  Activity on these files shows up as "ConsoleIdle" time in
##  the startd's ClassAd.  Just give a comma-separated list of the
##  names of devices you want considered the console, without the
##  "/dev/" portion of the pathname.
#CONSOLE_DEVICES = mouse, console


Did you try those?

Michael
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