As I've recently changed to an ISP that kicks me off after 2 hours, I've
knocked together a little program that relies on the fact that when you go
online, the pppd daemon creates /var/run/pppX.pid, the little program I've
hacked together does a stat on the file and calculates the time you've
been online.
Enjoy - I hereby place this program into the public domain to be freely
copied, hacked, compiled and used anywhere so long you acknowledge me as
the author.
/* Written by Alex Buell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#define PPP_PID "/var/run/ppp0.pid"
int main(void)
{
time_t t1 = time(0);
struct stat st;
long hours, minutes, seconds;
if (stat(PPP_PID, &st) < 0)
{
printf("Failed to retrieve stat for %s\n", PPP_PID);
return 1;
}
seconds = t1 - st.st_atime;
hours = seconds / 3600;
if (hours * 3599 < seconds)
seconds -= (hours * 3600);
minutes = seconds / 60;
if (minutes * 59 < seconds)
seconds -= (minutes * 60);
if (hours * minutes < seconds)
seconds -= hours * minutes;
if (hours != 0)
printf("%ldh ", hours);
if (minutes != 0)
printf("%ldm ", minutes);
printf("%lds online\n", seconds);
return 0;
}
Cheers,
Alex
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