Uptime (how much a user is online) script

cerberus_gr · Post by **cerberus_gr** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 2:11 am

Hello,

I want to write a script which takes a log file and returns the uptime of some users.
This I want is help about the idea.

I have thought to save all chan users at 00:00 and then the next day on 00:00 to parse the channel log. How to parse it and extract the info I want? What about netsplits?

thx

demond · Post by **demond** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 12:33 pm

you need to remote WHOIS the users and then parse numeric 317 (signon time) reply

cerberus_gr · Post by **cerberus_gr** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 7:13 pm

I think that this is too complicated. Why not to parse the logs?

demond · Post by **demond** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 10:38 pm

*shrug*

searching through logs won't give you person's signon time (that's when he or she has connected to IRC), hence no uptime for you buddy

and no, obtaining the real signon time (and calculating uptime from it) via WHOIS is not complicated at all

cerberus_gr · Post by **cerberus_gr** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 11:37 pm

Sorry then, because I didn't explain well what i want to do.

This I want is to save the uptime for each user for every day (24 hours).
First of all i want to calculate the uptime of my eggdrop and after the uptime of the other users. And all of these for a day. Every night at 00:00 I just have to parse the logs and create a xml file for the previous day...

So even if the user was online for 20 hours (from 00:00 until 20:00) and he closed his client at 20:01 and returned to irc at 21:00, i want to have save the 20 hours that he was online.

demond · Post by **demond** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 11:51 pm

heh, well, now that is complicated

you need to sum up all user appearences on the channel by parsing logs, or better yet (and much less complicated) by tracking user's presence on channel with a time counter (start counting when he/she joins, stop counting on quit, part, kick)

cerberus_gr · Post by **cerberus_gr** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 11:46 pm

Does anybody has any code which does the same?

Thx

egghead · Post by **egghead** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 12:38 am

cerberus_gr wrote:Does anybody has any code which does the same?

Thx

Hi, some time ago I wrote an onlinetime.tcl. It sends an whois to the server and parses the raw 317. This is what demond suggested.

Not sure if the method proposed by cerberus does really provide the correct info.

http://members.fortunecity.com/eggheadtcl then onlinetime.tcl (direct linking is not allowed with fortunecity. How unfortunate.)

cerberus_gr · Post by **cerberus_gr** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 1:08 am

thx a lot