Overengineering a way to know if people are in my university's CS lab

Back in the 90's we used finger - IIRC it would tell you the last machine someone logged into, which could be in the lab

Someone wrote a script to finger everyone in the entire CS department and tell when the lab was busy, by counting people logged in.

This work fine, except for on intro courses where some labs had lots of non-CS majors in them.

I had finger running on login to `finger stacy` I was at SDSU on a very large SunOS system and she was at a private school and I assume that computer was a bit more limited.

`Finger Stacy` would run every minute and typically be running for 15 minutes max... that is until I moved into the dorms and my machine was online all the time.

A few weeks go by and I get an email from the SDSU admin requesting that I stop fingering stacy as it was bothering the other Sysadmin. I remarked with a grin that all I was trying to do was in fact try to `name of the command` and they promptly deleted the script from the account.. It still makes me smile as I write this.

fdisk or mount?