[TriLUG] pidgin as punchcard clock?

Brian McCullough bdmc at bdmcc-us.com
Thu Aug 14 06:05:45 EDT 2008


On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 06:45:51PM -0500, Douglas A. Whitfield wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 6:31 PM, David A. Cafaro <dac at trilug.org> wrote:
> 
> > I thought pidgin had a way to alert you when someone signs in and
> > signs out, that I believe would be kept in the chat logs that pidgin
> > can keep as well.
> 
> 
> Yeah, seems like it wouldn't be hard to look at the time stamps and do some
> substation to get times, or are we both misunderstanding the problem?


Since you are talking about using a "magic" ID, then all you need is a
log-analysis program to extract the approprate data.


Brian





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