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pliny has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Help! I need some way to check to see if a user that has been logged into my site has left.... When they log in, a text file is updated with their username and a timestamp.. my goal here is to make something similar to the "other users" section here at perlmonks... I don't want to have to make my users logout, so is there any way to check for their absence??? Thanks a bunch, PLiny