Determine which users are using the GUI?

[Carter Harrison]

Is there a way to poll the host server to see who is currently connected and using the GUI or how many people are currently using the GUI?

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[Russ Ross]

That is a very good question which I assumed didn’t have a very good answer so I never thought to even ask.

I was able to do it back in the TK/Xwindow days with 3.5 and earlier and found it very usefull.

I haven’t discovered or heard of a way to do it with the new JAVA IDEs.

In the meantime one could kill the host server and see how many people complain  😳 .

Russ Ross
RussRoss318@gmail.com

[Carter Harrison]

Thanks Russ.. Unfortunately having people complain is exactly what I was trying to avoid by asking the question.

[Jim]

I don’t know if this is exactly what you are looking to accomplish….

on Linux/Unix

lsof|grep 13013

13013 is the port that 5.5 uses for the host server

Nobody using GUI

/home/hci >lsof |grep 13013

java       8455  hci    7u  IPv4  789339696                TCP *:13013 (LISTEN)

Just myself using GUI

/home/hci >lsof |grep 13013

java       8455  hci    6u  IPv4  825252376                TCP inteng1-lx.mvnhealth.com:13013->sid5892.mvn.local:1860 (ESTABLISHED)

java       8455  hci    7u  IPv4  789339696                TCP *:13013 (LISTEN)

Myself and co-worker using GUI

/home/hci >lsof |grep 13013

java       8455  hci    6u  IPv4  825252376                TCP inteng1-lx.mvnhealth.com:13013->sid5892.mvn.local:1860 (ESTABLISHED)

java       8455  hci    7u  IPv4  789339696                TCP *:13013 (LISTEN)

java       8455  hci   15u  IPv4  825271820                TCP inteng1-lx.mvnhealth.com:13013->sid4730.mvn.local:2229 (ESTABLISHED)

/home/hci >

Jim

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