[Neurodebian-users] Condor, USB and KeyboardIdle problem

[Michael Hanke]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Michael Hanke <michael.hanke at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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?
>

I can get keypress events in terminal windows via /dev/pts/*, but no mouse
and no keyboard activity in a browser :-/

Michael


>
>
Michael
>



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