Can ruby script detect 'pc lock', 'pc unlock' instances?

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Hello i need urgent help
How we can manage/detect instances like pc lock or pc unlock via ruby
script

e.g
1). If i start my pc then script will automatically start until i
log-off.
2). If i lock my pc script will start counting time until i unlock pc.
3). then it will shows whole days lock-unlock time

how will i manage this via only rubyscript ???

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On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Vijay Ramane
[email protected] wrote:

Hello i need urgent help
How we can manage/detect instances like pc lock or pc unlock via ruby
script

Use Windows’ Event Log instead (Account auditing has to be enabled via
group policy in Active Directory or locally on the machine for this to
work, otherwise you’d’ve to hook into explorer or svchost to gather
the locking messages).

e.g
1). If i start my pc then script will automatically start until i
log-off.
2). If i lock my pc script will start counting time until i unlock pc.
3). then it will shows whole days lock-unlock time

No need to, since Windows can keep track of Logon / Logoff events
(4624, 4634 are the respective Event IDs). Just interface with the
Security event log, and parse it (or export it as XML, then parse
it). Windows doesn’t directly provide a Lock/Unlock message, but if
there was no shutdown of the system between the logoff and logon
events, it’s rather certain that it was an (un)locking

Apparently, the win32-eventlog gem[0] can make parsing event logs
easier.

Note: I haven’t tested it, so I have no idea if it works with Ruby 1.9
or so, and the documentation doesn’t say anything about this, either.

[0] http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/85/1738/EventLog.html

Phillip G.

Though the folk I have met,
(Ah, how soon!) they forget
When I’ve moved on to some other place,
There may be one or two,
When I’ve played and passed through,
Who’ll remember my song or my face.

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Thank You very very much

Phillip G. wrote in post #971098:

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Vijay Ramane
[email protected] wrote:

Hello i need urgent help
How we can manage/detect instances like pc lock or pc unlock via ruby
script

Note: I haven’t tested it, so I have no idea if it works with Ruby 1.9
or so, and the documentation doesn’t say anything about this, either.

[0] http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/85/1738/EventLog.html

Phillip G.

Though the folk I have met,
(Ah, how soon!) they forget
When I’ve moved on to some other place,
There may be one or two,
When I’ve played and passed through,
Who’ll remember my song or my face.